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First off, no worries, not trying to whinge about any of it, just could not think of a proper header... always hate those lol. My question more relates to how much it actually still can be considered merely a right wing party and not a plain far-right one. In other words, is describing them as a "right wing to far-right" party still an accurate description in 2020? The party has moved steadily to the right over the years and 'old' source material just may not reflect the changes (all but one source for 'right wing' are from 2016 as far as i could see, and a lot has happened since).

Sources like this BBC article, this one from DW or this one from The Guardian all from this year, describe the AfD as a far-right party. Some mention about far-right extremism is found in those as well, but not really asking about that. The BBC article is of particular note, i assume, as it is actually posing the very question "How right-wing is nationalist Alternative for Germany?", the other 2 are about different things regarding the party but touch on extremism and general popularity, just to give very brief descriptions... but you lot can read, so why go into detail more. There is also another DW article from late last year, which, while also describing them as 'far-right', does mention how "There is no absolute consensus about how to describe the AfD as a political phenomenon, other than as a party well to the right of the CDU and their Bavarian sister party, the CSU, after Merkel moved the conservatives significantly toward the center.". But stating that of course does not mean they are a mere right wing party either. I kept it at four sources for now as i wanted to hear some opinions on the matter first before wasting any time on it. It seems that i pretty much see them described as far-right universally nowadays, but that may very well just be confirmation bias on my part. But providing more recent sources describing them as a far-right party should be trivial.

Anyway, i did not want to edit the article without having a discussion about it first (would have gotten reverted anyway lol). So, any thoughts on the matter, recent sources confirming/stating otherwise and so on would be appreciated. 2003:D6:2714:37F3:3DC3:76CA:EAD2:7F6A (talk) 21:19, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Oh, and i just wanted to say that i have edited this talk page before, also as an IP editor. But all of those discussions are now archived. Just to be open as my IP changes pretty much every day and you would not see it in my contributions. Have a good one. 2003:D6:2714:37F3:3DC3:76CA:EAD2:7F6A (talk) 21:28, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

So, no response by anyone... i will give it another week or so and then be bold and change it unless there is any reasonable argument here on the talk not to. 84.189.234.59 (talk) 06:16, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Went ahead and made the change, if the change gets accepted that is. I hope i did not break anything, the infobox was a bit confusing to edit so i hope i did not break anything. Looked ok visually to me on the third try of previewing the page lol. Removed the refs to the outdated material i think. I am uncertain if those were used in other areas/could be used in other areas of the article. So, please give it a look over in that regard. Thanks. 2003:D6:2714:3731:F1D0:8E36:2ABA:21F (talk) 22:39, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Doh, i forgot that i changed the date on my pc for something, it has been close to 14 days anyway. My date was the 18th... At last it was only this and not something actually important before i noticed. Anyway, close to 14 days since i raised it, not more than. 2003:D6:2714:3731:F1D0:8E36:2ABA:21F (talk) 22:51, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

I accepted the edit per your explanation here and the lack of any objections. That doesn't mean an editor who actually follows the article won't see the change and object, but if so, then the conversation can resume. Schazjmd (talk) 00:18, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Yeah sure. Obviously not opposed to discussion. Cheers anyway for at the very least getting the ball rolling for building a consenus here on the talk, no matter which way that will turn out in the end. Have a good one. 2003:D6:2714:3731:F1D0:8E36:2ABA:21F (talk) 00:33, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

I agree with the changes. The "right-wing" label as having the same weight as "far-right" (particularly as both being understood as stalled compartments) is really WP:UNDUE and relies on cherry-picking, if not outright misrepresentation. Only looking at scholar sources, the current iteration of this party is overwhelmingly classified within the far-right spectrum (not unlike the article of similar case, Vox, btw), that comprises both the extreme right and the comparatively half-assed radical right.--Asqueladd (talk) 00:47, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Large enough parts of the party certainly seem to be far-right extremist, given that the entire party in the state of Brandenburg has been put under partial surveillance by domestic intelligence due to suspected extremism since i started this discussion. The party in the state of Thuringia is under partial surveillance for the same reason as well. German language article on Brandenburg here if anyone cares. And keep in mind that surveillance of a political party in Germany has a pretty high barrier due to the countries history. So those are not just political moves but highly bureaucratic processes that lead to partial/full surveillance. Anyway, they are probably closer to extremism nowadays than to just being a right wing party. But i doubt source material would adequately support extremism as a position of the entire party, at least as of now. 2003:D6:2714:3731:F1D0:8E36:2ABA:21F (talk) 01:45, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Arent the guardian and New York Times far-left wing sources?

They tend to lean left of centre, but they're not exactly Marxist. I'd say they're reliable.

And putting parts of a political opponent under partial surveillance by domestic intelligence tells you more about the anti-democratic attitude of the german government than about the AfD.

I could not detect any extremism with the party plattform of the AfD which would not be considered normal in most western conservative parties like the Republican party in the USA or the Tories in the UK.

62.226.82.15 (talk) 03:08, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

And the lack or sources is why extremism is not in the article. You are complaining about something that is not even stated. And no, the NY Times and Guardian are not far-left. Although it is a typical far-right trope to call any media they disagree with far-left. What you can detect or not is completely irrelevant too. And as i stated, surveillance is not something that can just happen because someone does not like them. Do you have any real arguments? Or do you have any reliable sources that explicity go into how the AfD is not far-right? Just a passing mention of something is not good enough, actual in depth and recentish coverage of how they are what you say they are. 2003:D6:2714:37F1:1D80:4E77:2BF1:DB4F (talk) 06:16, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

I think we should keep the right-wing to far-right label rather than moving to a just "far-right" one. Indeed, all sources but one are from 2016 for "right-wing," but that is less because it is difficult to find new sources than that the ideology section was created then and is not often changed/sources aren't often added to it. Indeed, every single source from the "far-right" section is from 2017. Quite a bit has happened since then, too, but we are not just changing it because the sources are out of date because that precedent would require us to constantly create new articles. As for the three articles used to assert that Germany is a far-right party, none of them even attempt to prove it's moved to the far-right in the last 2 years. The DW one makes a point that there is both a radical and a moderate wing - implying the AfD is more of a big tent right-wing party than a far-right party. The only grounds to classify this one as stating the AfD is a far-right party is that it uses the term "far-right party" in the first paragraph. Indeed, the statements of DW about the topic (such as here) seem to be just this: the party has both an extreme "far-right" wing and a more moderate "right-wing" wing. Hence, we classify the AfD as both to include both. In the article by The Guardian, indeed, the writer describes the party as "far-right." However, this article also makes clear that the far-right ones "singled out" by the BvF was Der Flugel, in particular Bjorn Hocke and Andreas Kalbitz. So, clearly, this implies that the Der Flugel is a far-right group within the AfD, not that the AfD itself is far-right. Finally, the BBC article seems to prove the opposite of what it has been said to. Indeed, on a surface level, it seems to claim the AfD is far-right. However, it also says the AfD is of the same "political family" as "France's far-right National Front and Austria's far-right Freedom Party - as well as the populist, anti-Islam Dutch Freedom Party of Geert Wilders." Neither the National Rally (the National Front doesn't exist), the Austrian Freedom Party, nor the Dutch Party for Freedom are classified as "far-right" on Wikipedia - they are all instead classified as "right-wing to far-right." So, if this is part of the same political family as those, this should not be given special treatment and be called "far-right" while all those remain "right-wing to far-right." The definition of far-right in this article seems to be the definition of right-wing to far-right on Wikipedia. This article also seems to go directly against the thesis of the post that the AfD has become far-right in recent years. The assertion here is that the basis for calling the AfD far-right are due to comments (as in Bjorn Hocke's comments about the Holocaust memorial) and policies (as in the policies on Islam) that were taken in 2016-2017, exactly when most of the sources saying the AfD is Right-wing come from. Here is a good source explaining a clear divide between the AfD's ideology and the far-right, from the Brookings Institute, no less. This one, I think, displays well how the AfD is "right-wing to far-right" instead of just far-right because it shows how there are both moderates (right-wingers) trying to fight against extremists (far-right) over the direction of the party. If, in a month or two, the far-right extremists seem to win, it can be argued that the AfD is far-right. However, for now, the internal party war has yet to have a clear winner or loser. So, until then, we should keep it in that purgatory where most populist parties lie instead of changing it to try to argue something that is being fought over has already been decided. --47.137.28.170 (talk) 16:39, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

You do not need to drown the talk page with barely legible bricks of text rambling about a so-called bias, non-sequitur comparisons with other Wikipedia articles, sources being far-left and whatnot. The history of this party is a story about a rightwards turn in 2015 and a firm current placement at the far-right spectrum (although one authoritative author—Kai Arzheimer—already considered them far-right before their 2015 radicalization). This is perfectly documented and explained in secondary sources authored by authoritative scholars keen on the research of far-right politics in the country: take an example. Whether if (within the overarching far-right) the party fits better as far-right radicals or as far-right extremists is another matter altogether (not actually addressed yet in the article).--Asqueladd (talk) 17:40, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

(ec) Just a few things, in regards to the fluegel, all the personnel are still within the party, in leading roles even. Hoecke in Thuringia, Kalbitz still, or again, in Brandenburg. Court cases ongoing of course but as of now he is a member due a decision by a Berlin court. And those are just the most prominent of the extremists of course, so not even far-right anymore. And while the Guardian article does focus on the now defunct fluegel, that, again, is a case where reality has overtaken the source. The party in two states is now under surveillance just like the fluegel was. There obviously are many sources talking about it, reson being far-right extremism. But you are right that there is a 'war' going on in the party, but that has been going on nearly as long as the party existed. I mean the party started more or less as an economic liberal party coupled with populism. Not quite that anymore of course.

I disagree that a shift in party politics, not just in this case but in every case, should be, to a degree, static. I do understand the difficulty of comparing different sources from different points in time, weighing them up and coming to a consensus on something. And also that it should not happen every week or every other month. But over years that is something that Wikipedia should do. Things change and that change should be reflected. In regards to the BBC article and the part you quote, you compare a reliable source to unreliable Wikipedia articles. And just because the parties are described as something in their articles, really has no bearing on the question here or on what the source itself states. And it very clearly does call the french and austrian parties far-right as well. And Wilders party populist of course. But quite honestly, i know too little about the other parties, the sources in the articles and the developments in the respective parties to have any further opinion on the labels, how accurate they are today etc. Maybe they need adjusting to todays reality as well, maybe they do not. Other stuff exists basically, and those discussion need to happen on those articles.

The Brookings essay makes brief mention of the Afd, talking about the voter base, which really is if no import as the party program and leadership are the important parts, or rather their description in reliable sources is. But does also mention a 'diversity' in leadership (never thought i would use that word when talking about the Afd lol). And that is perhaps relevant, but it goes into little to no detail either. I mean, the essay does call the party "national-socialist" but with quite minimal detail as well. And i would say that is an extremely contentious label to give, should that be given weight for one hardly expanded on sentence as well? But overall the essay talks about populism in Europe. Jobbik of Hungary is mentioned, for example, and described as having a shift in positions, should that shift not also be noted in that article? (probably is noted but i have not looked at the Jobbik article, it should be mentioned anyway). So all in all, that essay says very little on the AfD, but does note there is no total uniformity in the party leadership, the voter part is just irrelevant in my opinion though. So it spends all of 4 sentences or so that may be considered relevant here. And gives hardly any explanations either.

The FT article is paywalled for me so cannot say anything about it.

And just to pick up on your last point again, the party has constantly evolved since it was founded with constant fights of different factions up to the point where now it may not just be a far-right party but turn into an extremist one. And indeed, as you say, we should wait how that turns out until, or even if, we call them extremist. Completely agree on that. But they are far-right now and there is plenty of source material to support that. Is there still recent source material that really goes into how they are still a regular right wing party? And sorry if that is in the FT article, but as i said, paywalled for me.

And as a very minor thing, could you perhaps use section breaks in your reply? It is not very intuitive to do on Wikipedia but of course does help in a discussion like this. No issue if not of course, would just be nice on a personl level. The big text block was a bit hard to navigate in regards to the discussion. But cheers anyway. 2003:D6:2714:3741:D471:A1B0:53F7:22B6 (talk) 18:53, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

As for Asqueladd, the tone's a bit off. The response is not just "I disagree" but "how dare you for disagreeing?" Let's assume best intentions, as per Wikipedia guidelines, and let's try to create an environment in which people don't insult others for their disagreements on particular viewpoints (as you clearly did when you described my perfectly reasonable edit as "barely legible"). It's very bad form. And, I've been seeing this all around this article. Right below, someone else brought up a similar confusion to mine (albeit worded very poorly) and was personally attacked for their post history. This is a very bad precedent I've never seen before on Wikipedia that seems to be the norm around here. Elsewhere in the thread, I've seen someone saying "Do you have any real arguments?" This is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a form for attacking the character of people you dislike. This entire thread really irks me. Please think about what message you're sending and how you're sending it before you write. (If you wish to chastise anyone for prolonged discussion, why not chastise the person who started the thread, whose post is longer than mine, or the person right below me?) That aside, there's not much of an argument here. It's basically, "you are wrong! There are citations that call it a far-right party!" I do not argue there don't exist sources that call it a far-right party but rather that there are also citations that call it a right-wing party or that argue it is locked in a battle between right-wing and far-right groups. This is also an argument attempting to use wording to avoid what I'm arguing. He is arguing as if someone can be "far-right" without being an extremist or a radical. That is clearly false and most articles use extremist and radical as synonymous with far-right (when talking about the right, of course).

As for the second response, I'm not in full agreement both as to the particulars and the general arguments I made. First of all, I think there's a bit of confusion on my general argument. When I said "right-wing to far-right," I wasn't denying the existence of far-right personnel. I was merely saying that far-right personnel aren't all personnel and that the party is split between right-wing and far-right people (Jorg Meuthen on one end, Bjorn Hocke on the other). So, until the far-right wing controls the party without the right-wing group being a major part of the leadership of the party, we should assume it to be right-wing to far-right and not simply far-right. This is the same reason we consider the National Rally a "right-wing to far-right" party because, while some members tied to leadership roles are holocaust deniers, other parts of the leadership are not, so there are both right-wing and far-right factions. Both of my articles claim this, and I think I've been quite clear about that. My argument is not "the far-right doesn't exist" but rather "it is not solely far-right." I am, of course, not saying we can never change anything on Wikipedia.

Your response to my criticism of the BBC article is very strange. The first thing to point out is that you didn't respond to my point that this BBC article seems to go against the narrative that the AfD has become far-right in recent years, but rather argues it's been far-right since 2016-17. Many of the quotes from senior leaders are taken from 2016-2017, many arguments are about positions the AfD already took in 2016-2017, and there are simply no arguments about it becoming far-right in the past 2 years. If we use this article to argue anything, then we also must use the articles from 2016-2017. The reason why, if this point goes in my favor, this party becomes right-wing to far-right is clear: there are a lot of reputable articles from 2016-2017 that do not agree that this party is far-right that were previously cited on Wikipedia from that time. So, the argument must be that the article has claimed that the party has become far right in the past few years. This BBC article does not agree with that claim, so it should not be used.

As for the question of looking at other Wikipedia articles, I do it because those other articles provide a good way of looking at what Wikipedia policy is for certain kinds of parties. If this article clearly states that this party is similar to two other parties, then we can look at how those other parties dealt with question of whether they are far-right on their talk pages; after all, if the parties are similar, so should Wikipedia's treatment of them. I certainly think that the treatment of different articles on Wikipedia should be consistent and that we should prize that consistency. I realize that this could cause some kind of ad infinitum in which two articles constantly cite consistency with the other one so that they don't have to change, but I still don't think an article comparing one party to another should be used as reason to make one article described differently from others. If there are articles describing the AfD in-itself and how it is far-right without using external examples, that would be much preferred. I would like to see an article that looks like that.

You are right about the Brookings Article. I cited basically, a summary of the longer article, which is a better article. Here is the article, although it's from mid-2019, not 2020 (btw, this is just a good article; I'd recommend reading it even without this thread). The point of the 2020 article is to show that the author still stands by his claims in his article in 2020, to show, basically, that it still applies. The article attempts to eschew the claims that it is a far-right party, claiming that it isn't really coherently "far-right" but rather that it is led by both far-right and right-wing factions, basically splitting party leadership between them. Sorry about the FT article. FT works weirdly; they sometimes move articles between paywall and not-paywall, sometimes based on how you get there. If you look up "Germany's AfD slides in polls" and then click on the first option, it's the same article but not paywalled. I know, it's ridiculous, but that's FT for you. (also, I would just like to point out that the articles from The Guardian and DW are taken as proof the AfD is far-right based on one or two sentences that claim "Germany's far right party has done x," which is, of course, a good application of your point about the Brookings article.)

I also think when a change is made based on "the party has become more right-wing in recent years," it would be good if the articles cited claim that. The claim that the party has become more right-wing since 2017, though, that has been repeated ad nauseam in this thread, is not argued by any citation. Definitely not by The Guardian article, not by the DW article, and, as I have argued before, not really by the BBC article (it has claimed a shift since the Hocke years (2013-2015), but not since the Petry years (2016-2017)). I do believe we can change articles, but not based on a new article that claims a party is far-right but rather by an article that claims it has changed to become far-right. Otherwise, it's not the claim of a shift being argued but rather the original argument over whether an article is right-wing to far-right that is being argued. It feels like the arguments being given are not actually cited in the citations. I would like to see a citation that claims, "the AfD has become more far-right in recent years." Otherwise, it's going to lead to what I'm talking about: a constant appeal to recency and the claim that nothing beyond what was written yesterday works as a citation.

Basically, most articles looking at recent developments conclude that the party is split between the right-wing and far-right factions. Hence "right-wing to far-right." Those articles that claim it is a "far-right" party usually tend to either claim that the party was far-right in 2016-2017 or don't give a reason. Changing the article would require a reason to believe the party has moved further right, to the far-right. No one has provided any such reason. No citation has ever claimed this. More importantly, let's keep civil. At the end of the day, this argument doesn't matter; it's about how a German political party is classified on the English Wikipedia. There's no need to get angry or try to assassinate someone's character over it. --47.137.28.170 (talk) 16:02, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

You don't honestly expect anyone to read and reply to that MASSIVE wall of text, do you? 2003:D6:2714:37A7:DAF:DC30:84A8:237A (talk) 23:43, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

And now we have someone just revert the edit and not take part in discussion. Just a note to a January 2018 RfC in an edit summary. Even if this is rejected, not even a note on the talk page about it is just bad form. As is communicating soley by edit summary. 2003:D6:2714:3743:51A:FEF2:326F:5C23 (talk) 21:11, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Ah well, seems like no one is even interested in talking about it. Please just hat the whole section. I will not edit this or any other page anymore. Fuck this, no one even looks at the talk page and just assumes i don't discuss, do something wrong and so on. And then you have outright nazi trolls in the section below and it is perfectly fine or someone posting INCREDIBLY long comments to stifle discussion, fine as well. Fuck this and good bye. 2003:D6:2714:3743:51A:FEF2:326F:5C23 (talk) 22:27, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

I support this change, and particularly agree with what Asqueladd said. The party is described as "far-right" in most recent sources. The party and its public and journalistic perception has clearly shifted since the old consensus was reached, and since the bulk of the cited sources were written, and to continue relying on them is difficult to justify. This is exemplified by Frauke Petry's departure after the 2017 federal election citing the party's increasing extremism - in light of this, how can one say with a straight face that articles written while she was leader are just as relevant as those written more recently? In addition, the justification given in the page history for reverting this change is weak at best, and the fact that the users who reverted it have not even engaged with this discussion is frankly insulting. If they truly want the article to reflect consensus they should help to create it, or at least try to seriously justify why there is no need for new consensus. Erinthecute (talk) 06:44, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

• Looking at the sources there is a consensus among political scientists in academic literature that they are far-right. Right wing is a cover all term and the limited number of news outlets that use the cover-all term explicitly refer to them as far-right in other articles contradicting those cited and this is evidence that the term right-wing was used as a cover all term, not a specific position. There is no despute, just the occasional use of a cover all term "right wing to far-right" is a novel interpretation and misreading of sources at best, at worst it is a deliberate and tendentious pushing of opinion in an attempt to sanitise this far-right parties image. Lets stick with the best sources, the academic ones. The party is far-right, they don't turn ultra-nationalist and start calling for bans on immigration on the full moon or after a night on the grog, that is their full time ideological position. End of story. Bacondrum (talk) 02:22, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

Right wing claim

All of the sources cited for right wing have explicitly described the AfD as a far-right party.

• Deutsche Welle [1], [2], [3], [4] this list could go on for pages. Generally speaking this outlet repeatedly refers to them explicitly as far-right and clearly uses right-wing in a general sense.
• Foreign Affairs [5], [6], [7] this list could also go on for pages. In at least one of these articles they refer to the party as both right wing and far-right, demonstrating the catch all nature of "right-wing".
• The Independent [8], [9], [10], [11], [12] "gaining support from right-wing organisations, including Germany’s far-right party AfD party" see how right-wing is used in a general sense. Many of these articles use both terms.
• Sydney Morning Herald[13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18] Could go on forever, the overwhelming majority of their articles describe AfD as far-right explicitly.
• BBC News [19], [20], [21], [22], [23] etc etc etc.

Clearly the outlets consider the AfD to be far-right and use the term right wing only in a general sense, either that or their editors are schizophrenic. I believe there is evidence of tendentious misrepresenting of sources going on here. As one can clearly see from the sources wider reportage, the claim that AfD's position is contested - that they are seen by some as merely "right-wing" - is a massive misrepresentation. As the claim is not backed by the sources I am going to go ahead a remove this un-sourced claim. Bacondrum (talk) 04:50, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

user:Nillurcheier Hi, as demonstrated above, all sources used to cite "right-wing" actually refer to AfD as explicitly far-right and the cover all term has been cherry picked from their wider reportage, therefor the claim is not verified and is in-fact clearly a misrepresentation of the sources wider reportage on the subject. Bacondrum (talk) 21:10, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

RFC ideological position (news citations)

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If a news media outlet refers to a parties ideological position as say "radical-left" in dozens of articles covering the subject, would it be appropriate to then give a contrary description of the party as "centre-left" based on a single article from the exact same outlet? Is that cherry picking or misrepresenting the outlets broader reporting on the subject? Thanks in advance. Bacondrum (talk) 23:14, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Tricky question since both far-right and far-left are more or less derogatory labels. I see that three labels are used in the article; centre-right, right-wing, and far-right. None of these are precisely defined. And if they were, they would have to be defined in relation to what is right and left in Germany and not in relation to some international standard... In short, calling AfD right-wing (only) seems fair. ImTheIP (talk) 23:14, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

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Right wing

Back to the right wing claim. I believe this has been added tendentiously. It is not verifiable and is not backed by reliable sources. I believe the terms use and therefore the sources have been misrepresented in an attempt to soften the parties image. If you look at all the sources cited, in wider reportage they describe AfD as far-right, thus I believe right wing is being used in a catch-all sense and not as a specific position. Right wing should be removed. See wider reportage by all sources cited for "right-wing" claim. All of the sources cited for right wing have explicitly described the AfD as a far-right party.

• Deutsche Welle [24], [25], [26], [27] this list could go on for pages. Generally speaking this outlet repeatedly refers to them explicitly as far-right and clearly uses right-wing in a general sense.
• Foreign Affairs [28], [29], [30] this list could also go on for pages. In at least one of these articles they refer to the party as both right wing and far-right, demonstrating the catch all nature of "right-wing".
• The Independent [31], [32], [33], [34], [35] "gaining support from right-wing organisations, including Germany’s far-right party AfD party" see how right-wing is used in a general sense. Many of these articles use both terms.
• Sydney Morning Herald[36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41] Could go on forever, the overwhelming majority of their articles describe AfD as far-right explicitly. Bacondrum (talk) 23:35, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

I personally think contentious claims about political positions like this should not rely on a menagerie of news sources, but rather more reliable sources such as political science academics. I think it looks and reads ridiculously especially seeing we go on to say this "Since 2015, the AfD has been increasingly open to working with far-right extremist groups such as Pegida. Parts of the AfD have racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, and xenophobic tendencies linked to far-right movements such as neo-Nazism and the Identitarian movement." Well, how much more mealy mouthed and weaselly can we get? Reliable sources clearly place them on the far-right, and our article does too. Right wing is clearly a catch all term being misrepresented here to tendentiously soften the image of a far-right party with connections to neo-Nazism. Bacondrum (talk) 23:42, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

I think you can be bold and change it. I don't think anyone would mind. ImTheIP (talk) 11:44, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Please see Talk:Alternative for Germany/Archive 5 (right-wing[9] to far-right[10]) where this received a long discussion by many different editors. There was no consensus to remove right-wing or far-right. This has been discussed multiple times on the article's talk page and many editors have discussed this. We really need a similar large discussion again and a new consensus if we want to change this. Also, the claim of right-wing being used by these sources as a catch-all phrase is your view/interpretation, not necessarily fact. Of course, news sources are typically going to be more inclined to use labels such as far-right over right-wing as its more sensational more likely to garner clicks. Helper201 (talk) 01:48, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Right-wing is a broad term covering the entire right-wing. There's been no consensus what-so-ever to include right-wing as a position. The previous debates show that there are serious issues with its inclusion. It's being added in a tendentious manner, its use in this manner misrepresents the sources and is a blatant equivocation. You need a consensus to include, failing that you have no grounds for the adding the unverified and disputed claim. Bacondrum (talk) 08:12, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

"Of course, news sources are typically going to be more inclined to use labels such as far-right over right-wing as its more sensational more likely to garner clicks" so the sources are not reliable in your opinion? Or are they reliable only when they say something that you like, and unreliable when their wider reporting doesn't agree with what they are saying? Bacondrum (talk) 08:16, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

I didn't say they are not reliable, I'm just stating why news sources would be more inclined to use one term over another. I have no disagreement over keeping the far-right label. I just do not agree that right-wing is always used in the context of being a catch-all statement or that it should be removed here. There aren't just positions of centre-right and far-right, but there are clearly positions and cases where parties fall somewhere between these two positions, as is the case here. The same could be argued against you in that you just don't like that some sources use the claim of right-wing, so therefore self-define every case where it occurs as the source using it as a catch-all term. This is your interpretation. Helper201 (talk) 19:40, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Obviously there are many right-wing positions from center-right to far-right...you are wrong - right-wing is a catch all term and there is no dispute about AfD's position, none-at-all. You are obviously trying to sanitize the image of a far-right party in a tendentious manner, I can only assume you are a supporter of the far-right. I can't be bothered fighting POV pushing from far-right activists here anymore. You win, push your bullshit claim that their ideological position n is disputed if you want. Bacondrum (talk) 20:51, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Then if there are many positions from centre-right to far-right, why do you never bring these up or propose using them? Please try and attempt to find a compromise solution. There's clearly a difference between parties such as the AfD and more extreme parties that are purely far-right, like the National Democratic Party of Germany. To simply label both as purely far-right is disingenuous as it shows absolutely no nuance and makes it seem as if they are both equally as extreme as each other, which they aren't. I am in no way a supporter of the far-right, I'm not on the political right at all. I am concerned about objectivity. There aren't just parties than slightly lean to the left or right, then extreme parties at the far end of either side of the political spectrum, there are clearly parties than can fall in between these positions, either entirely or partly. I have attempted to compromise with you on multiple occasions such as removing the historical ideologies from the ideological section of the infobox on this page and being open to using other terms and seeking alternate ways forward. You seem unwilling to budge on any compromise that isn't just simply removing any and all right-wing labels and only retaining the position of far-right, as you are consistently reading into the same conclusion that every source you are presented with is using the right-wing term in a catch-all manner. Helper201 (talk) 02:57, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

You are proposing a false compromise. Right-wing is a catch all, that's a fact. Follow the sources without using equivocation to cherry pick your own POV and push a moderation fallacy. You are pushing for something that is not true at all, there is no debate about this far-right parties position, they are on the right-wing of the spectrum, and their specific position that side is far-right - your use of right-wing as a specific position is a lie, it is an equivocation - if you are okay with misrepresenting sources like that it's on you, I can't be bothered trying to get the article to actually reflect what sources say anymore. Bacondrum (talk) 07:54, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

All the different right-wing ideologies are right-wing, amazing I know, but what is so hard to understand about that? Nothing. There is not and has never been any debate about the AfD's position. Bacondrum (talk) 08:02, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Ideology section of infobox

There's way too much listed here. Any ideas on how to cut it down? Ezhao02 (talk) 13:14, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

You're right, it needs reducing urgently. We should list just three ideologies at most, as ideally should be the case for all political party Infoboxes. Right-wing populism, National conservatism and either German nationalism or Ultranationalism (in that order) would be my picks.--Autospark (talk) 13:48, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

What is wrong with listing many ideologies? Pruning the list risks introducing bias as it is not clear how to determine which entries to keep and which to remove. ImTheIP (talk) 23:55, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

It's silly, that kind of detail belongs in the body. The info box is supposed to give a concise overview and not go into excessive detail as per guidelines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox#What_should_an_infobox_contain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox#What_should_an_infobox_not_contain?

• I went ahead and trimmed it, still has a massive WP:CITATIONOVERKILL problem. As per guidelines the infobox shouldn't require many/any citations at all, ideally. Also, this "historic" crap needs to stop - the party was founded in 2013 for gods sake - it is less than a decade old, it barely has any history. I've never seen a "historic" section like this, look at the Labour Party (UK) for example, 120 years old and there is no "historic" section. Bacondrum (talk) 00:36, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, the history section was overkill. I do think that Social conservatism should be kept - it's one of the main ideologies for AfD. ImTheIP (talk) 00:50, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

I don't object to that Bacondrum (talk) 02:15, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Social conservatism is redundant, as that's inherently part of right-wing populism. If we're going to list any form of conservatism, it should be national conservatism. I agree that the "historical" part of the Infobox section should be removed, as the early incarnation of AfD was very short-lived. In addition, anti-Islam and anti-immigration should also be removed from the current Infobox, as both are political positions rather than distinct ideologies, and (again) both are in effect already covered by right-wing populism.--Autospark (talk) 15:43, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable to me. Bacondrum (talk) 23:22, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

I disagree with mass removing cited ideologies. WP:CITATIONOVERKILL is for when citations make what is stated difficult to read or breaks up the text. With the exception of anti-Islam, which we could cut some of the citations out for, the infobox is easy to read, navigate and understand. I don't see any advantage to removing cited content. The reason anti-Islam has so many citations is due to edit warring over the matter. I have sort compromise and removed the historical ideologies. As it currently stands the infobox is easy to read and navigate. Limiting the ideology list to just German nationalism, right-wing populism and Euroscepticism waters down the extremity of the party and unnecessarily limits and constrains the information given. Helper201 (talk) 03:21, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Well, there's been an ongoing discussion among a number of editors and we all agreed to trim the section in accourdance with guidelines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox#What_should_an_infobox_contain? and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox#What_should_an_infobox_not_contain?. A compromise is not the answer to everything, you seem to have a habit of offering false compromise with the compromise being to include your unverifiable/misinterpreted/cherry picked POV. I think it's time these tendentious false compromises were stopped at far-right articles. Bacondrum (talk) 02:59, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Actually, no, you didn't all agree to one position. ImTheIP advocated keeping social conservativism, which you ignored and removed. Also, see - WP:DEMOCRACY. Please read Wikipedia:Consensus, including WP:CONLIMITED. This is two editors agreeing on mass removing cited material supplied by many more editors over a long period of time. This clearly contradicts the line "Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale". You haven't even looked into the idea of a compromise, nor has it even been discussed at all, that's the point of a talk page - discussion. Whether and/or to what extent the infobox brakes/broke the guidelines of Help:Infobox is also highly subjective. How much is excessive and who decides this? There has been no discussion on even what should be kept and why, and what shouldn't and why. Your personal vendetta against me to assume negative intentions does not give you the authority to override, mischaracterise or ignore the points I bring up for discussion. These positions have been added by multiple editors and have numerous citations and the article's formation including the ideologies in the infobox have took place with much surrounding discussion from many editors over years of editing and all the claims are supported by reliable sources. To just come in and rough shot mass remove cited content without even allowing adequate time for discussion is not helpful. Take a look at Talk:Greta Thunberg/Archive 9#Picture change, where I proposed a new image. At the request of other editors, I allowed the discussion to stay open for a month without changing the picture. Change should come after consensus; you don't have the right to change it and then constantly revert to your own position. You propose the change, then if it is disagreed upon you come to the talk page and wait for a consensus, THEN change it, not the other way around. Helper201 (talk) 08:16, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Infobox

As per MOS:INFOBOX if the lede makes a claim, the infobox should reflect that, yeah? It shouldn't offer an alternative to the descriptor used in the lede, an alternative that contradicts the existing consensus? Bacondrum (talk) 00:22, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

It already reflects this in the 'ideology' section of the infobox. There is no need to restate something that isn't a position in the 'position' section of the infobox.--Jay942942 (talk) 00:52, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

The article describes their position as "Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) is a right-wing populist political party, often characterized as far-right" with citations. The info box is supposed to reflect this, end of story. You can't negate consensus in this manner as per WP:GAME. Bacondrum (talk) 01:16, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

The first part of that lede description, "right-wing populist" is likely referring to the ideology (not the position) of the party, since that phrase was already in the 'ideology' part of the infobox before this consensus was reached, and that phrase is almost always included in the 'ideology' section of infoboxes and not the 'position' section. The second part, 'far-right', yes, is referring to the position. They're in separate clauses. I'm not negating any consensus. If you really want "right wing populist" in the 'position' section, then do you still support it remaining in the 'ideology' section? As for the 'far-right' thing – since I know you've discussed this with people on other talk pages – I don't object to that being there, and wouldn't mind if you or another editor changed the entire position of the party to 'far-right' like the consensus you formed on National Rally and Vox (political party). It's just bizarre to have something that isn't recognized as a 'position' on the rest of WP being recognized as one here. If you want to push to change conventions and normalise the use of 'right wing populist' as a position on Wikipedia, I suggest also raising this on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics/Political parties, since I imagine your argument would be relevant to a lot more parties beyond AfD.--Jay942942 (talk) 12:34, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

RFC is the AfD's ideological position disputed?

The majority of sources used in this article describe the party as far-right, a few describe them as simply right-wing. However, the right wing descriptor is used in the article to claim a dispute (right-wing to far-right) regarding the AfD's specific idiological position. So, do the sources presented below:

• (A) Dispute the AfD's ideological positioning on the far-right or
• (B) Simply use a catch all term for the entire right-wing

Bacondrum (talk) 23:48, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Survey

• B There is no evidence what-so-ever that the AfD's position on the far-right is disputed in reliable sources. Right-wing is not a specific position, it is a broad term for the entire right-wing. All five outlets cited for the claim (Deutsche Welle, Foreign Affairs, The Independent, the Sydney Morning Herald and the BBC) have referred to them as far-right in their broader reportage as demonstrated here:

Same sources explicitly describe the AfD as a far-right party in wider reportage:

Deutsche Welle [42], [43], [44], [45] this list could go on for pages. Generally speaking this outlet repeatedly refers to them explicitly as far-right and clearly uses right-wing in a general sense. Foreign Affairs [46], [47], [48] this list could also go on for pages. In at least one of these articles they refer to the party as both right wing and far-right, demonstrating the catch all nature of "right-wing". The Independent [49], [50], [51], [52], [53] "gaining support from right-wing organisations, including Germany’s far-right party AfD party" see how right-wing is used in a general sense. Many of these articles use both terms. Sydney Morning Herald[54], [55], [56], [57], [58], [59] Could go on forever, the overwhelming majority of their articles describe AfD as far-right explicitly. BBC News [60], [61], [62], [63], [64] etc etc etc.

I personally think we should be looking to academia not news reports for such claims regardless. The current misrepresenting of the broad term right-wing in news reportage is not evidence of a dispute about their ideological position and the claim is fallacious in the extreme, IMO. It reads ridiculously, the far-right is right-wing, it's a tautology. Bacondrum (talk) 23:59, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Bacondrum, the far right is right wing, but not all right wing parties are far right. It's not a tautology. DGG ( talk ) 00:39, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi DGG The far-right is right-wing. So if "right-wing to far-right" is not a tautology, it's damn close to being one. certainly reads oddly. Regardless, I don't think this odd sounding claim is backed by sources. Bacondrum (talk) 01:25, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

• B: I agree that the description "right-wing" is not mutually exclusive with "far-right", and that the appropriate term for a party that has been described as both "right-wing" and "far-right" in several reliable sources is "far-right", not "right-wing to far-right". (This isn't the first time I've seen this basic dispute show up; we might want to do a more general RfC later.) Loki (talk) 00:57, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
• B I think the second option might be a more appropriate option, it means: "(B) Simply use a catch all term for the entire right-wing". Ali Ahwazi (talk) 09:28, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
• More academic sources use "right-wing populist" than "far right". "Far right" can be a broad category: there is a big difference between AfD and Kotleba, Golden Dawn, or even Confederation, although all of them are considered far right. (t · c) buidhe 08:34, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

References

• Not a great RfC question - Do the sources listed use a catch all term for the entire right-wing? Absolutely. Does that mean that we can assume that they support a more specific term? No. Does it mean that we can ignore sources which use the more general term and use the more specific term only? Absolutely not. The appropriate term for a party that has been described as both "right-wing" and "far-right" in several reliable sources depends on the proportion of sources which use either of those descriptions (and also the quality of those sources) - e.g. if 99% of the sources use "right-wing" and 1% use "far-right" then "far-right" is clearly not the correct term for us to use; of course, the converse is also true. I think also that some of the respondents may find a confusion between the question asking what the sources do and a question of what we should do in the article text. And I share buidhe's thought on academic sources using "right-wing populist". - Ryk72 ^talk 01:27, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

[Responses moved to discussion section below] Loki (talk) 18:05, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

• [Ryk72's response above was here.]

I guess the simplest way to ask would be: Is there a dispute about AfD's political position evidenced in reliable sources? I'm open to "right-wing populist", that's an actual position. As I've pointed out "right-wing to far-right" makes no sense, if that's not a tautology its very similar in its faulty logic - the far-right is right wing. That's the issue for me, this odd phrasing is justified by others as reflecting a dispute among reliable sources, when in fact there is none. Bacondrum (talk) 02:32, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Entirely agree on the oddness of the phrasing - one is a superset of the other - but there are at least a couple of ways to fix that. I'm not sure that there needs to be a dispute, though - difference, inconsistency or discrepancy would suffice - Ryk72 ^talk 16:25, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

I would say the first sentence might be something like: "Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) is a right-wing populist political party, often characterized as far right, known for its opposition to the European Union, multiculturalism, and immigration." (these are AfD's main issues) (t · c) buidhe 16:05, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Assuming sourcing, I think that's quite good; well phrased. I'd perhaps only split the last clause out into a separate sentence; in exactly the same position; but only perhaps. - Ryk72 ^talk 16:25, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Agreed, this is much better, reflects sourcing and does not misrepresent a dispute where there is little or none. And the phrasing is much more logical. Bacondrum (talk) 21:50, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

I oppose the above. The intro should simply read "Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) is a right-wing populist political party in Germany, often characterised as far right". Being anti-EU, anti-multiculturalism and anti-immigration are standard, typical features of right-wing populist and far-right parties across Europe, and adding that merely makes the intro weighed down with redundant information that should instead be elaborated upon in the article body.--Autospark (talk) 15:07, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

To a certain extent, this is the case. However, these parties differ in what issues they emphasize most. Some extreme right parties focus more on other issues, such as being anti-LGBT, anti-Roma, or anti-Nato—or, in other eras, anti-Jewish, irredentism against other countries, or anti-communist. I do think it's worth mentioning the top few issues in the first two sentences. (t · c) buidhe 17:24, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

I support buidhe's suggested lead in its entirety. Yes, those are common positions for European far-right parties, but we shouldn't assume the reader is familiar enough with European politics to know that. Loki (talk) 15:17, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I also support buidhe's suggested lead in its entirety. If there is a dispute it certainly isn't that the far-right is right-wing. "right-wing populist political party, often characterized as far right" actually reflects what little dispute there is between sources. The specific issues they focus on are obviously highly pertinent to the lede. Bacondrum (talk) 23:29, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks buidhe I think that's a massive improvement. Bacondrum (talk) 22:57, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

It seems the consensus here is for the lede, not the 'position' section of the infobox. Nowhere else on Wikipedia do they put "populist" in the position section of an infobox. I'm fairly ambivalent as to what exactly should be in there, but it should be a position of some kind, like "right-wing", "right-wing to far-right", "far-right", whatever people decide is appropriate.--Jay942942 (talk) 23:54, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Right wing is not a specific position, it's a broad grouping of ideological positions, a cover all - the entire right-wing is...well, right wing. right-wing populist is absolutely a well known and specific ideological position. The infobox is supposed to reflect the article. Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Bacondrum (talk) 00:47, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Please read the section on 'consistency' in WP:INFOBOX. It is absolutely relevant to consider how infoboxes on similar article pages are written when deciding what to enter in this one. Unless you are suggesting the AfD is unique in having a right-wing populist "position"?--Jay942942 (talk) 00:59, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Please read the guidelines again, carefully. The article describes their position as, and I quote "right-wing populist political party, often characterized as far-right" with citations. The info box is supposed to reflect this. I think this might be a case of Wikipedia:Competence is required. Bacondrum (talk) 01:10, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

I'm not going to engage with personal attacks. There's no consensus here for the political position you entered. The consensus here was regarding the lede, and it was natural to infer the 'ideology' section of the infobox should reflect that, but not the 'position', given that's not been done elsewhere on Wikipedia before. Changing the 'position' section of the infobox is an extraordinary act that would almost certainly need a new Talk page consensus. You'll see when other people revert you, as one already has. Pinging the people you made a consensus with to confirm that their consensus was regarding the lede (and likely by extension the 'ideology' section of the infobox), but not the 'position' section of the infobox: @Buidhe, Autospark, Ryk72, LokiTheLiar, and Vif12vf: --Jay942942 (talk) 12:24, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I did not mean it as a personal insult. It's just that right-wing populism is a political position, it's what our article states and it is well sourced. I personally think it should say simply far-right, but the consensus was right-wing populist often characterized as far-right. The lede should reflect the article, end of story. Lots of articles have different positions, because political parties have different positions. Bacondrum (talk) 21:15, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

I think you might be talking past each other a bit. The infobox contains two fields: a section for political ideologies, under which we already list right-wing populism along with a ton of other ideologies, and a section for political position, which appears to be intended to be position on a conventional left-right spectrum without other qualifications.

I agree that I would like to avoid mentioning "populism" in the position field though I'm not totally opposed. My personal view is that the most accurate description of AfD for the purposes of that field is "far-right". I'd accept "right-wing" if the consensus is against me. I don't think "right-wing to far-right" (what we currently have) makes any sense: IMO this is like saying someone is between California and Los Angeles. Loki (talk) 18:00, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

I support only having far-right. I mean ideally we could stop all the arguments over position by only having a few option, from non-controversial, broad descriptors like left or right wing. But that is obviously a bigger conversation. Bacondrum (talk) 21:39, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Agreed that having either only "right wing" or only "far right" resolves questions of linguistic inconsistencies. Per WP:DUE, the question of which is dependent on the support for each in the corpus of reliable sources. WP:RSCONTEXT inclines us to filter that by defocusing passing mentions; giving "reliable sources which deal primarily or significantly with the topic". WP:RSOPINION requires us to attribute opinions, either specifically or generally (as we have done in the lead section). WP:IMPARTIAL requires us not to reflect source bias in the language used in our articles. So, what do reliable sources which deal primarily or significantly with the subject, and which are not opinion or opinionated, say? - Ryk72 ^talk 21:48, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

I am okay with just far-right as well. I would suggest adding a "radical right" content note too in the style of what was done with the National Rally and Vox pages, but it's not essential.--Jay942942 (talk) 12:35, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Political Orientation of AFD

@Jay942942, Bacondrum, Marko8726, Dave wolf544, Tastypotato0932, Volunteer Marek, Helper201, Grasshopperweeb, LokiTheLiar, MWD115, Saxones288, Vif12vf, Buidhe, Aréat, Nillurcheier, Ezhao02, Vacant0, and Braganza:

Should the party be described as:

• Right-wing
• Right-wing to far-right
• Far-right
• Other option ?

PS : Sorry in advance to notify so many contributors, but we really need a maximum of votes to avoid further conflicts on infobox. Martopa (talk) 15:48, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

• Right-wing to far-right or Far-right with a note explaining radical/extreme right like at Vox (political party) or National Rally. None of the major reliable sources denies that the party has xenophobic and racist views (and probably sexist views), but their members aren't violent (arguably not anti-democratic) and don't glorify Mussolini, Hitler, Ferenc Szalasi, Pétain etc. contrary to National Democratic Party of Germany or Italian Forza Nuova for example. --Martopa (talk) 15:48, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
• This is a dumb RfC, we already discussed the question above and came to a consensus based on how academic sources describe the party's political orientation. (t · c) buidhe 15:50, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

@Buidhe: Yes it is true you are right, however when you quickly look at the main article's history, there are still conflicts (I am not talking about anonymous IPs but discrepancies between Marko8726 and Bacondrum or between Bacondrum and Grasshopperweeb for example). --Martopa (talk) 16:11, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Martopa, I still don't see any evidence of adequate WP:RFCBEFORE on your part. Can't this be resolved in some other way than holding a RfC? (t · c) buidhe 16:15, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Buidhe Yes, I rushed a little too much, I often tend to think that voting helps to clarify, but it's true that Wikipedia is not a democracy. However it is not always easy to discuss on this matter because some editors (@MWD115: who regularly whitewashes these kind of parties for example) never participate on corresponding talk's pages, in his particular case MWD115 doesn't even respond on his own talk page. --Martopa (talk) 16:29, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Martopa, I would suggest removing the RfC tag. If some editor never responds on the talk page, it doesn't matter, you can easily revert their edit and point them to the above discussion where we came to a consensus on this issue. If indeed they are consistently whitewashing far-right parties against consensus you can gather compelling evidence and try to have them topic banned at WP:ANI. (t · c) buidhe 16:32, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Buidhe Ok, I'll take it off. Should the title of the section also be rephrased in this case ? I would never understand all those editors who are not satisfied with the current version of these political parties' pages, without ever trying to discuss so that their preferred version obtains a consensus, they let their chance pass. --Martopa (talk) 16:58, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Martopa, Sure, I would just delete the part of it that says "RfC". There's no problem with bold editing as long as editors cite reliable sources and make the case why the changes are right, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. (t · c) buidhe 17:02, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

More as a service than an opinion: The German Wikipedia says "ist eine rechtspopulistische, in Teilen rechtsextreme politische Partei" which translates to "is a right-wing populistic, partly far-right political party". It can't be completely wrong to follow this description in the English speaking Wikipedia as well. Nillurcheier (talk) 17:06, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Martopa:::::Buidhe I would like to add I do not "whitewash" these parties, I don't support any political party and studied global populism. I wanted to make these pages more objective if anything, as they seemed biased in the opposite direction by trumping up the more controversial elements of the party or replying on sources that only talk about how racist/far-right/xenophobic the parties are (which are genuine elements in their policies or what members have said) but it was done in a way that was not written in a balanced tone, hence why I added people like Hans-Georg Betz who write objectively, or add what the party had to say as a response, which in a neutral article should be taken into account even if we disagree with what the party stands for ideologically.

@MWD115: I partly agree with you, but on this kind of controversial pages where conflicts are regular, if you do not go to the talk's page, your edits will be systematically reverted (by Bacondrum in this case but not only him) because it will be seen/perceived as an attempt to "sanitize/normalize" these parties, even if it's not your intention and that the current versions do not correspond to reality. For example on the page Pauline Hanson's One Nation where I pinged you (November 2020), you never responded and only a minority of editors participated on party's position RFC. Currently the page of this Australian party is blocked only on the "far-right racist" version and a new consensus can never be achieved if editors like you do not explain your edits (and eventually vote on RFCs) when you have the opportunity, it's the only solution if you want to change these situations and "neutralize" the articles in question. This is what I have been trying to explain to you on your talk page for 2 days. --Martopa (talk) 13:10, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

• Right-wing to far-right or Far-right with a note explaining radical/extreme right like at Vox (political party) or National Rally. I agree with Martopa here: the main reason I initially opposed listing only "far-right" was due to the lack of a distinction between radical right and extreme right. I believe that the note sufficiently addresses this distinction, but I also would not oppose "right-wing to far right". However, I do believe that the note is necessary, especially if only "far-right" is listed. Ezhao02 (talk) 17:19, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
• Far-right - "Right-wing to far-right" is a tautology, the far-right is right wing. No evidence of any dispute about their position has been presented - overwhelming majority of academic and news sources describe them as far-right. When we start to see academics and reporters saying something like "AfD are not far-right, this is an unfair descriptor, they are in-fact centrists"...neo-liberals, communists or whatever...then we have evidence in reliable sources of a contested descriptor. As it stands there is a firm consensus among reliable sources that they are on the far-right of the right-wing. I personally think much of this "Right-wing to far-right" nonsense is an attempt to white wash the party. Bacondrum 21:18, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
• Right-wing to far-right. There are plenty of sources that simply describe the party as right-wing and those that describe it as far-right, both should thus be represented. The party is clearly not a purely far-right party like the National Democratic Party of Germany is. It is not ultranationalist, neo-Nazi or fascist. It may have far-right elements within it but to describe the party as purely, simply and only far-right is inaccurate and misrepresentative. To just call the party only far-right makes it seem indistinguishable from parties like the German NPD, which is clearly to the right of the AfD. Helper201 (talk) 07:20, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

The far-right is right wing, it's a tautology, simply omitting the "far" part is not an indication that the source is contesting the far-right descriptor found in an almost interminable number of reliable academic and news sources. Bacondrum 07:32, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

• Right-wing to far-right Only a faction Der Flügel is far-right, the other politians are either right-wing or between right-wing and far-right. Marko8726 (talk) 11:47, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
• Far-right with a note explaining radical/extreme right like at Vox (political party) or National Rally. As Bacondrum wrote above, "No evidence of any dispute about their position has been presented - overwhelming majority of academic and news sources describe them as far-right." Saxones288 (talk) 03:30, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
• Far-right: "Right-wing to far-right" does not make sense. Far-right is a strict subset of right-wing. Calling them "right-wing to far-right" is like describing a location as "between California and Los Angeles". Loki (talk) 07:21, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
• Right-wing to far-right as sourced and described in the German Wikipedia. Nillurcheier (talk) 09:47, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
• Far-right with an explanatory caveat about the radical right, as suggested by Saxones288.--Autospark (talk) 10:14, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
• Right-wing to far-right with an explanation about radical right, if there are references about them being right-wing then add them back, you can't call AfD a solely far-right party because of its extremist factions. Vacant0 (talk) 12:55, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
  • I did some research about AfD and because of it I'm changing my vote to Far-right. Vacant0 (talk) 12:59, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
• This discussion is coming to essentially the same conclusion as the previous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alternative_for_Germany#RFC_is_the_AfD's_ideological_position_disputed? Consensus was and remains that there is no evidence that the the descriptor "far-right" is contested in any way. Bacondrum 21:37, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
  • Bacondrum, the matter has been discussed extensively long before you brought it up (Talk:Alternative for Germany/Archive 5), wherein there was no consensus to use only far-right. You yourself have admitted against your own claim that right-wing to far-right is not always a tautology as you first claimed. It all depends on context and the author. Some do classify right-wing and far-right as separate positions on the political spectrum wherein right-wing is not as far down the political spectrum as far-right but further along than centre-right. I think most people will agree there are political parties that are further to the right than the centre-right but that doesn't automatically make them purely or simply far-right. Helper201 (talk) 23:34, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

nonsense. Show me a single source disputing the widely used descriptor “far-right” failing that it’s a tautology...there are many positions between centre right and far right, none of which have been presented. The claim is POV nonsense, original research. An unverified claim. Bacondrum 00:11, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

• Far-right - How many times is this going to be relitigated? A trout to Martopa for starting this up again. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:52, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

A trout indeed. Bacondrum 00:11, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

• While i told myself not to make another edit here after the way it went mid last year, which put me well off this toxic hell hole (but at least the Nazi troll from Heide finally had their IP rangeblocked after many years lol). Looked at the news today, had to laugh and it made me think of this article. Had not even looked at it since mid last year. But it seems even the german government believes that the party is not just far right, but an actual danger to democracy and is well on its way to be designated an extremist group. And just to clarify, it still is 'only' a suspected extremist group, but that is pretty much just a necessary step on the ladder. It is a very involved process. There surely are an abundance of more sources on that, i just took the obvious english language media source as it only happened today. Said designation is not something that can happen on a whim or without foundation and is all around not something any bureaucrat can just do. Given Germanys history, the barriers for things of that nature, like surveillance of a political party by intelligence services, are very high. But do go on whitewashing the article, i expect nothing less. And i do apologise to those who actully are trying to uphold the standards of Wikipedia through verifiable and reliably sourced information. But as is obvious, a fair few are not interested in that but rather whitewashing. And as a sidenote, i am still so glad to have made the decision to take a step away from the incredibly toxic atmosphere that is Wikipedia. Have a good one anyway. 85.16.47.249 (talk) 19:44, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

thanks for the link, I couldn't agree more, the BBC had this to say about AfD "Some of the party's rhetoric has been tinged with Nazi overtones...The party's leader in the eastern state of Thuringia, Björn Höcke, once described Berlin's Holocaust memorial as a "monument of shame" and called for a "180-degree turnaround" in Germany's handling of its Nazi past. Picking up the same theme, Alexander Gauland trivialised the Nazi era as "just a speck of bird's muck in more than 1,000 years of successful Germany history"." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37274201 It's a appalling to me that any one would attempt to soften this extremist party's image Bacondrum 20:09, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

No worries, thank you for getting the troll rangeblocked last year by the way. Even went through the AN archives to find the thread lol (had to use your contributions to find it; felt almost like detective work haha; and yes, lockdown is boring :P). They were doing that for many many years and i had to deal with them a few times over the years. And finally someone stopped them. So, i had quite a few laughs today in my lonely and boring lockdown life haha. Not a bad day overall. And to not just use this as a forum, i will keep an eye on this for a few more days, if anyone wants additional german language sources, i would be willing to help out in that regard. But it does seem rather straight forward so i am unsure if it even is needed. And there should be quite a few english language sources as well on the designation as a suspected extremist group, obviously. But anyway, the offer stands for the next few days. Then i will get the hell away from here again lol. Have a good one. 85.16.47.249 (talk) 20:41, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

• Far right. This discussion is more or less over, but it's absurd that people are still trying to argue the extremists are only a minority of the party. If anyone has any doubts at this point, they can take it up with the BfV. Also, regarding the distinction between radical and extreme right, it's worth noting that that distinction was coined in the context of German politics - and the BfV specifically monitors extreme right groups. At this point, it's more accurate to say that AfD is divided between radical right and extreme right factions, with the latter becoming more powerful with time. Already in 2019, up to 40% of party membership supported Der Flügel, and this was stronger in the eastern states (in Saxony, support was potentially up to 70%). Of course, the extremist presence has only continued to grow since then. Where are the moderates? Where is this mythical moderate national-conservative faction who balance out the extremists and justify the label "right-wing to far-right"? I'd love to know. Erinthecute (talk) 09:53, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
• Right-wing to far-right per NPOV, i see many sources calling them just right wing. We have space in infobox to add them both. Shadow4dark (talk) 14:04, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

References

Direct democracy

You should include this in the info box.

80.131.56.37 (talk) 01:32, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

No need to put this party into the segment "Antisemitism in Germany"

This party clearly supports both jewish life in Germany and Israel abroad. Stupid strawman.

62.226.87.182 (talk) 03:34, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Antisemitism is rife in the party. Here are just a few reliable sources supporting this claim:

• https://www.dw.com/en/german-politicians-slam-right-wing-populist-afd-over-rising-anti-semitism/a-50893368
• https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/antisemitismus-beauftragter-klein-die-afd-vertritt-viele-100.html
• https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/bundestagswahl/bundestagswahl-juedische-organisationen-raten-von-wahl-der-afd-ab-17528666.html
• https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/antisemitic-turn-of-alternative-for-germany-party/
• https://www.bpb.de/politik/extremismus/rechtsextremismus/257899/die-afd-und-der-antisemitismus

Robby.is.on (talk) 11:17, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Left-wing framing bullshit bingo in the introduction

"right-wing populist", "right", "far-right", you mentioned all the far-left smear terms in the introduction. Good job if you wanna run as speaker for a communist party in Germany such as "Die Linke" but hardly credible for an objective wikipedia article.

There are multiple parties to the right of the AfD and this party basically stands for the same positions as Nigel Farage in Britain or the Republican party in the US. You dont smear either of them as "far-right". And from the view point of the far-left even the centre would look "far-right".

62.226.87.182 (talk) 03:32, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

As editors, our personal opinions are irrelevant, Wikipedia is meant to reflect reliable sources. The descriptions you mention are supported by inline citations from high-quality sources. For example, the dozen or articles that back the "far-right" description are from The Economist, Reuters, BBC, New York Times, Deutsche Welle etc., none of these sources are far-left or associated with "Die Linke". Robby.is.on (talk) 11:12, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

I agree our personal opinions are irrelevant, but so are publications by opposition parties. The source on what they are has to come from AfD themselves, this is a political party not an abstract impressionist painting. 174.138.220.211 (talk) 16:24, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

The word "right" is mentioned 14 times in intro and infobox, four times just in the first paragraph of the intro. I think the reader is WELL INFORMED by now, can we please stop adding this. And what is the point of putting "far" as a qualifier, and who determines this distance? Please insert citation needed on all the "far" qualifiers since this does not translate well into other languages. 174.138.220.211 (talk) 16:23, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

"The source on what they are has to come from AfD themselves. That's a misunderstanding of the Wikipedia sourcing principles, 174.138.220.211. If Wikipedia articles went by how political parties and other organizations describe themselves, they would all have wonderful policies for the benefit of all mankind. That's why we don't let them self-describe. See WP:SELFSOURCE: entitites can only be used as sources on themselves if the material is not unduly self-serving (which the programs and manifestos of political parties certainly are), and the great majority of any article must be drawn from independent secondary sources. Bishonen | tålk 16:38, 2 January 2022 (UTC).

"Left" and "Right" as ad hominem fallacies

Can we focus on the facts about the facts, and not the facts about the opinions?

I think Wikipedia might needs to review its policy on reliable sources. There was a time when the "left" supported these views, and we can cite those too. I don't want to go into an edit war here, but why does an encyclopaedia have an entire first paragraph dedicated to name-calling, if its not just an attempt to dissuade the casual reader from critical thinking?

Populist, sure. I love Wikipedia for NPOV... but Neutral runs through the middle and can only see the middle, and should pay no mind to the chants of the master manipulators (also lots of research on how politicians manipulate, and we're not above manipulation, if we were that wouldn't have worked.).... and just focus on the facts about the facts, not the facts about the opinions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 102.219.79.151 (talk) 05:40, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Political ideologies listed in Infobox

We really need to reduce the list in the Infobox down to just three core ideologies. "Anti-Islam", "Anti-immigration" and "Anti-communism" need removing first of all, as they are either policy trends, superfluous ("Anti-immigration" is redundant with "right-wing populism" already listed) or irrelevant ("Anti-communism"). My two to keep would simply be "right-wing populism" and "national conservatism", although "German nationalism" would be an acceptable third ideology as a compromise (if admittedly it overlaps with national conservatism). Anything else should really be described in the Ideology section of the main article, where relevant referenced sources are available.--Autospark (talk) 15:19, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

I would prefer if we keep those two including "ultranationalism" --Vacant0 (talk) 10:59, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

References

I wouldn't objet to that, but would prefer scholarly sources over two journalistic sources to back that up, if any can be found.--Autospark (talk) 21:57, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

@Autospark: I was able to find more journalistic sources that back up the "ultranationalist" claim, however, I wasn't able to find scholarly ones. We can re-write the lead and include these sources if you want to. I would agree to keep "German nationalism, National conservatism and Right-wing populism" in the infobox. --Vacant0 (talk) 12:39, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Agree with this. Nine items is not reasonable. "Social conservatism" (uncited), "economic liberalism", "anti-immigration", and "anti-communism" (one citation each) all need to go. I could take or leave "anti-Islam" and "Hard Euroscepticism" since both are well-cited and the former is a major part of the party's platform and image, but "right-wing populism", "German nationalism", and "national conservatism" should be the core of the ideology section. Erinthecute (talk) 10:05, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

I see Davide King's recent bold edits to the Infobox and lede, and generally support the edits, with the proviso of national conservatism being listed in the Infobox as the second ideology to right-wing populism. That is a satisfactory compromise.--Autospark (talk) 14:17, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Autospark, I appreciate that and I am fine by that too; however, are you sure it is not really redundant like the others I have removed? From the academic sources, it can be categorized as a right-wing populist, e.g. this source used to support national conservatism as one of the main ideologies calls it a typical radical right-wing populist party. I think we should have in the infobox how the party is commonly identified as (right-wing populist vis-à-vis socialist/social-democratic, left-wing populist, liberal, and the like, i.e. the familles spirituelles, which is very common in academic sources for European parties), and have in the lead other common descriptions like German nationalist and national-conservative. In short, I am not convinced that national conservatism is due for the infobox (as the same source said, it is a typical right-wing populist party) but I am not going to lose sleep about it. Davide King (talk) 14:29, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

I think that Radical Right Populism in Germany shows how right-wing populism is enough and national conservatism is better seen as a wing or 'faction' rather than ideology, where we should put the main one and how academics identified the party (we can use the lead and the body to explain and add further descriptions). I did propose to add such parameters to reflect this but that has not happened, and I think national conservatism is undue as the main ideology of a radical-right populist party. Davide King (talk) 22:23, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Well, Davide King, I’d prefer both (but only two) ideologies were listed, namely right-wing populism and national conservatism, but I’m prepared to compromise with just “right-wing populism” as at least it’s the most well-referenced, and we should be attempting to continue to reduce the number of ideologies listed in Infoboxes.—Autospark (talk) 11:54, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Currently there is only "right-wing populism" stated as ideology and this is quite an understatement and doesn't reflect the right-wing extremism of the party. The Party is still under going a radicalization, their youth organization has now clear facist tendencies. There has to be "German Nationalism", "Anti-Islam", "(Hard) Euroscepticism", "Anti-Migration". Virtroxiam (talk) 23:08, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

That is because how scholars characterize it, and right-wing populism does include radical right-wing populism, which is the category of this party, and the infobox is not supposed to be a soapboax (German nationalism, anti-Islam, anti-EU, etc. is all reported in the lead, which is a much better place to discuss it rather than bloat the infobox with any political positions, when we are supposed to put ideologies (e.g. right-wing populism, not any -ism). Far-right as a position in the infobox, with a note, also already makes it clear the party's extreme nature. As for its youth party, we have its own article for it. Davide King (talk) 16:49, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

@Davide King: Do you think that I should request extended protection for this page? It is continued to be vandalized. Vacant0 (talk) 21:56, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

@Davide King: @Vacant0: Maybe you should start to write the correct ideology, like other Far-Right Party have it all around Wikipedia, like Freedom Party of Austria or National Rally. There is currently clearly in comaparison to other Partys the wrong ideology mentioned in the article. "Right-Wing populism" is very unspecific and seems like an attempt to portray the party as non-extremist as possible. What is going on here? Virtroxiam (talk) 05:00, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Both of those two parties are also right-wing populist; we really need to stop to treat the infobox as a soapbox to list any -ism and policy rather than main ideology. 'Right-wing populism' is, in fact, very specific and is the categorization given by scholarly sources. How much radical it is and everything else is better discussed in the lead and body, not the infobox. Davide King (talk) 14:09, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

But "Right-wing populism" is not the main ideology. Right-wing populism can be anything from liberal-conservatism to far right, even the nazi party, which would be very wrong. It is extremely unspecific. The Ideology section for parties is a shortcut to get information about the broad political orientation of a party, including for most right-wing parties there is a distinction between economically liberal, like the Swiss People's Party and economic nationalism/protectionism, like National Rally, and other very specific ideologies, like the Swiss People's Party supports isolationism, which is traditionally strong in Switzerland. "Right-wing populism" says nothing, then you could just delete the whole ideology section, that would be even better then misleading state is has right now, especially when it's compared to the ideology sections of other parties. Most parties actually have a short ideology section, right-wing/far-right parties are mostly a necessary exception including the Alternative for Germany. Virtroxiam (talk) 10:32, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

The Ideology section in the infobox on this page continues to be wrong and gives the wrong picture about the party and is not in line with virtually all other parties. Virtroxiam (talk) 23:58, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

"radical right" sounds more like straw man fallacy argument

Right it is with some libertarian leanings on economic issues, "radical right" are parties like NPD, DVU, "Die Rechte" in german domestic politics.

And with a "radical right" position you would not been able to get up to 13 percent in public polls. 93.206.57.30 (talk) 21:04, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

Should I add Islamophobia in the ideology section?

Reason: in their official website they said that "Islam doesn't belong in Germany"

https://www.afd.de/grundsatzprogramm/ איתן קרסנטי (talk) 11:54, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

No. Consensus regarding that section was reached already, you can read it above. Vacant0 (talk) 12:30, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Yes. The current "right-wing populism" does not correctly describe the party. "Right-wing populism" might be a right-leaning party, but the AfD is far-right. We could also just put "left-wing populism" for every left party, but then the ideology section does not make any sense anymore. Virtroxiam (talk) 11:29, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

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Add Direct democracy as an ideology in infobox

https://www.afd.de/grundsatzprogramm/#1 איתן קרסנטי (talk) 06:23, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

That's a primary source and not an ideology. There is also a consensus to only include "Right-wing populism" though. Vacant0 (talk) 11:46, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Template:Alternative for Germany

We should make a template for this page. an example that we should use is the template used on the Sweden Democrats page. Zyxrq (talk) 15:43, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Left-wing smear terms and double standards

Why do you use left-wing terms such as "right-wing populists" while calling in the english wikipedia article the far-left extremist party "Die Linke" democratic socialist and thereby using the claims and terms this party is making about itself? The AfD is not refering to themselves as "right-wing populists" and if you engage in using smear terms for one political side please do it for the other side as well. Otherwise you are a partisan heck. 80.131.62.133 (talk) 02:12, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

We draw on the most reliable sources available for our descriptions, and that is the consensus description of AfD. If you feel the article Die Linke needs improvement, then discuss it on the talk page of that article; but be prepared to provide neutral, reliable sources. --Orange Mike | Talk 02:25, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

As Orangemike says. We do not rely on the self-descriptions of organizations and movements, but on how they are described by reliable sources which study, report on, and evaluate them. There are all sorts of reasons why organizations and movements might be deceptive (or even self-deceptive) in their self-descriptions, so they are not considered to be reliable for that purpose

Incidentally, "partisan hacks" of any political persuasion generally do not last here very long. Wikipedia editors are pretty good about discerning editorial bias on the part of POV (point-of-view) editors, as we call them, and they don't remain undiscovered for long. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:01, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 May 2023

Last sentence of first paragraph has a spelling error. "within the family of European political parties which dose not oppose democracy" Should be "does not" 216.237.223.234 (talk) 16:18, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

 Done Vacant0 (talk) 16:20, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Point of view

This article uses charged language ("Islamophobia," "red-baiting") in describing its subject and is not neutral. It parrots cited sources that clearly have agendas opposing the subject of the article. 128.92.214.166 (talk) 06:34, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Fascist wing

The party has an neo-fascist wing. 2A02:3030:818:15F6:1:0:E14F:1A15 (talk) 17:44, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

AFD Political position - Right wing to Far right -

In the Infobox the AFD should be stated as a right-wing to far-right party. The article itself calls this party a broadly right wing party and there are many sources that say that there are two factions. The moderates and the far right. Even if today the far right faction may be the bigger of the two the article should still reflect the reality of there still being a large moderate faction. Also to note at the time of writing this, the AFD is the second most popular party in Germany polling at 20%. https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/ .right-wing to far-right sources.; Why has the Right-Wing AfD become so Popular in Germany? https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-explains-the-remarkable-rise-of-germanys-afd/ https://www.dw.com/en/afd-head-alexander-gauland-could-face-legal-action-over-nazi-bird-shit-remark/a-44099059 https://www.dw.com/en/afd-what-you-need-to-know-about-germanys-far-right-party/a-37208199 Zyxrq (talk) 21:54, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

And the sources used to say it's a far right party are mainly short articles who only include far right in the headline with no justification, hence a violation of WP:Headlines Crainsaw (talk) 20:28, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

This was already thoroughly discussed numerous times and even the RfC's confirmed that far-right should be only present in the infobox. The fact is that AfD is most commonly identified as a far-right or a radical right party by scholars and journalists. Sources that describe AfD as right-wing do exist, but it is undue for right-wing to be included in the infobox, for now. Vacant0 (talk) 21:27, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Agree with Vacant0. A consensus has already been reached on the issue after lengthy deliberation, and should stay.-- Autospark (talk) 07:19, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

If you go through the headings sources, a lot of them say that there is a moderate faction of the party. Meaning not far right so that should at least be mentioned in the heading and Infobox right?. If not the Infobox, it should at least be mentioned in the heading because a vast amount of sources that claim this party is far right admit it to having a sufficient moderate faction of the political party.Zyxrq (talk) 23:43, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

I would actually remove "far-right" and replace it with "right-wing" altogether. --Checco (talk) 12:42, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

I think there are multiple factions within the AfD, and the political positions only mentions the far right and radical right groups. Which should be kept, but there are also centre conservatives, and right-wingers in the party which should be mentioned Crainsaw (talk) 13:16, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

It is not about what you would do or think. It is about what reliable sources say. Nillurcheier (talk) 17:02, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

@Nillurcheier there are multiple German media sources which agree with me, I'll provide references soon. Crainsaw (talk) 17:33, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

That material could be added to the article, but changing the position parameter in the infobox would be undue. Vacant0 (talk) 20:30, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

I honestly dont think it would be undue. The sources that say the party is far-right also give enough examples/explanations for us to use right-wing in the Infobox. Those are my thoughts.--Zyxrq (talk) 21:37, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

I agree with Vacant0 that the current consensus should stand. I personally would need to see some compelling evidence that the AfD has considerably moderated its political position to consider otherwise.— Autospark (talk) 15:40, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

I think it is quite a long-shot to describe right-wing parties as far-right, when most left-wing parties are described simply as left-wing. AfD surely has far-right factions as well as centre-right ones, but it is broadly a right-wing party. --Checco (talk) 18:18, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Changing the political position to right-wing doesn't mean the party is considerably moderated in its political position. Right wing is a term which includes the far-right and Centre-right. For example, we can do something similar in which German National People's Party article dose with the political position in the Infobox. Doing something similar and Saying the party is right-wing in the infobox will maintain Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and in my opinion increase it. This also doesn't mean we have to change the heading that much. If we do change it we can say, The AfD's ideology is often considered to be positioned on the radical right, a subset of the far-right, within the family of European political parties which does not oppose democracy. Zyxrq (talk) 22:07, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Right-Wing?

The AfD is a far-right party (they're often described as fascist and have an openly fascist wing known as Der Flügel). They are clearly far-right or radical-right, and this is how every mainstream masthead I've looked at describes them from Deutsche Welle, the Guardian, New York Times, Politico, the BBC, Foreign Policy, Reuters, Al Jazeera, CNN...the list goes on and on. This article describing them as merely right-wing is farcical. I don't like to say this, but it's fairly obvious that there have been editors acting in bad faith here, as the AfD are clearly far-right and the vast majority of news outlets describe them as such. It'd be like if the Ron DeSantis article described him as a radical leftist, the current claim in this article is that ridiculous. The current claim is absolutely laughable. I know Wikipedia is not a reliable source, but this article is blatantly misleading. Tambor de Tocino (talk) 01:49, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

To quote myself "Changing the political position right-wing doesn't mean the party is considerably moderated in its political position. Right-wing is a term which includes the far-right and Centre-right.'' One big Reason I support changing the infobox to say right-wing in its political position is for the very reason that the terms Far-right and Far-left are used too loosely, which makes it easier for people to make bad faith edites. Also most of those mainstream sources say there is a significant moderate faction. Zyxrq (talk) 00:26, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Also The AFD and Der Flügel from what I know are not openly fascist. But Dr Flügel has worked with people/Organizations further into the Far Right.Zyxrq (talk) 02:11, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

East Centric

AFD polls higher in many west german states than the greens 176.72.13.94 (talk) 11:39, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

"Split from the CDU" is inaccurate

There never was a formal split between the two parties. Some of the founders of the party were former members of the CDU thats it.

It is not accurate to say that the AfD split off of the CDU it was founded Independently by former members 2A01:599:B10:A592:63EC:24CA:CA57:CE1C (talk) 23:06, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 September 2023

Update member numbers to 34,000 https://www.borkenerzeitung.de/welt/in-ausland/politik-inland/Mehr-Menschen-werden-Mitglied-bei-AfD-494546.html 84.15.186.65 (talk) 19:24, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

 Already done here. HouseBlaster^talk 19:45, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Right wing ideology

Why is my edit constantly reverted? I added their ideological position as “Right-wing to Far-right”, and the “right-wing” part is always removed. Doesn’t some part of the AfD count as average right wing? Firekong1 (talk) 17:50, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Any source for "split from CDU" ?

The party didnt split from the CDU this is simply not correct. Some current party members were former CDU members thats it. There werent a bunch of parliament from the CDU who joined the AfD If you wanna know how an actual party split looks like take a look at the new German "BSW" party who actually split from DIE LINKE Kogger120 (talk) 17:13, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

AfD Far-right Link Change

Do any of you It would be A good Idea to Change the link in the info box from Far-right politics to Far-right politics in Germany (1945–present). I think doing this for all far-right German political party articles for post ww2 politics, would give the reader a better understanding about far-Right Politics in Germany Today Zyxrq (talk) 02:09, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

For the moment I've only Changed the link in this article.Zyxrq (talk) 03:22, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Ideology in infobox

the ideology in te infobox is outdated, "right wing populist" is not the leading ideology of the party, and way to simplified and abstract to begin with. the Party is Ethno-nationalistic and partially neo fascist. Its embarrasing to have them labelled as "right wing populist" like some ECR parties, while this party supports mass deportation of citizens and is so far to the right, Meloni and Le Pen don't want to work with them Norschweden (talk) 02:19, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

That is not on us to decide, we just have to display the scientific consent, or, if there is no clear consent, present the dissent. (...) Alexpl (talk) 11:19, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Norschweden, the party is already described as such in the article lede and Ideology section. The Infobox is a summary, not an essay in itself. There were recent RFDs over the issue. If you wish to expand upon this descriptions of the party, expand, with reliable referenced sources, in the article body. (And yes, I agree with you that this party is extremist, not merely a right-wing conservative party. But this is an encyclopaedia, and our personal views mean nothing.)--Autospark (talk) 14:20, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

There's no difference between them. They're all the same scum of neo-fascist totalitarian Putin lovers. 84.148.210.108 (talk) 09:17, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

"Does not oppose democracy," or better to say "generally does not oppose democracy?"

It is currently stated in the first paragraph that the AfD is "positioned within the family of parties that does not oppose democracy." This is a generalization to some extent, and it would be more accurate to say "generally does not oppose democracy," as some of these parties are considered, by and large, to have some undemocratic element, though it does not dominate any of them. 172.59.185.135 (talk) 19:22, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

"generally does not oppose democracy" would be misleading as the party does not want to halt any democratic processes in Germany. Many readers would think something like "AfD wants to stop democracy in some ways, just not abolish it". 185.227.191.35 (talk) 14:14, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

It's really unclear what you was trying to write. What would be the difference between abolishing democracy and stopping it? IHaveBecauseOfLocks (talk) 13:03, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

If you have doubts, you can read about Jörg Meuthen on his article or the section about him here. As a frontrunner for AfD his opinion was that parts of them were opposing not only liberalism, but also democracy. IHaveBecauseOfLocks (talk) 13:14, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

And in his opinion parts of them are quite totalitarian.IHaveBecauseOfLocks (talk) 18:08, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes "generally does not oppose democracy" was better indeed. Thanks for raising the issue. I have done it several days ago already. Even better is "generally does not reject democracy" IHaveBecauseOfLocks (talk) 13:01, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

On this point of curbing generalization, I do think that there is enough of a (relatively!) moderate wing within the party to call it "right-wing to far-right," and in support of this I would submit to you that vastly more parties are called "far-right" than "far-left," an assertion which I have recently collected data on:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Support_For_Wikipedia-Labeled_%22Far-Right%22_or_%22Right-wing_to_Far-Right%22_By_Country.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Support_For_Wikipedia-Labeled_%22Far-Left%22_or_%22Left-wing_to_Far-Left%22_By_Country.png

Obviously these should not be exactly equal, as different sides will perform better or worse at different times, but there should not be this much of a gap, often in rejection of reliable sources. It should be noted that this bias is far stronger, even, when one focuses on parties listed as "far-left" or "far-right" exclusively. JustAPoliticsNerd (talk) 01:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Ok it is interesging (though complex if thinking about reasons). But anyway this section of talk page was not about the topic you have written about. "Far right" description discussion is talked about in the section above. This section is about relation to democracy. IHaveBecauseOfLocks (talk) 04:01, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

And I am afraid your maps are not right. As I watch on my country Poland it far right support is vastly over reported there. And it hapens to be the most reported country. PiS is in reality not described as far right - at least on English Wikipedia, though some obviously could disagree... IHaveBecauseOfLocks (talk) 04:09, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

I feel the references do not support the statement made in a section of the ideology. Should be corrected, supported, or edited out.

in the ideology section there is a reference to historical revisionism. This does concern me so i carefully read all the resources cited. No reference to historical revisionism is in the cited articles... so that reference needs to be properly cited. Its a serious accusation. Also... the same statement is about an AfD leader (Petry) but every article focuses on the fact that she left the party, and she was the extreme outlier (wants to shoot immigrants at the border). She is an independent. She is not AfD. I would correct it myself but experience with wikipedia says that is a waste of my time. Current statement: AfD's adoption of more hardline Islamophobic, anti-immigration positions, and historical revisionist remarks by leading AfD figures. Citing referemces 155, 156, 157. (Basically this article is padded with citations... makes it look legit when it is not. Its a common practice in university writing.)

Probably should read as: AfD's adoption of more hardline Islamophobic, anti-immigration positions, remarks by leading and former AfD figures. (?) Or a citation should be provided that specifically supports the accusation of historical revisionism. 185.44.146.188 (talk) 06:32, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Again: "split from CDU" is absolutely and utterly wrong

Does anyone have a source for that claim? Ive mentioned it several times on here but it was never addressed. The AfD never had a formal split from the CDU. There were not a bunch of people inside the CDU deciding to split. Besides even if this was the case it would be more accurate to say that they split from the "UNION" party alliance between CDU/CSU.

But it isnt correct so thats not of interest. The AfD formed independently from various anti-euro people (https://www.bpb.de/themen/parteien/parteien-in-deutschland/afd/273130/etappen-der-parteigeschichte-der-afd/#node-content-title-0)

Only few of the founding members were part of the CDU. I dont know how such an obvious ahistorical nonsense could make its way on the Wikipedia article of the second most popular party and probably currently most important opposition party of Germany. However I advice whoever wrote that to double check. The link I provided is by the Federal Agency of Civic Education you can read about the party history there 2A01:599:B14:FF41:DA3F:F4C8:E8FF:82DF (talk) 11:02, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello there IP user. A quick ctrl+f shows no mention of the afd being a split off of the cdu anywhere in the article, and only ever that members of the cdu were part of it from the beginning. In fact the article states the exact opposite to what you're suggesting, reading: AfD did not regard itself as a splinter party from the CDU, as its early membership also contained a former state leader from the Free Democratic Party and members of the Federation of Independent Voters, a pressure group of independents and small business owners.

Also, there doesn't seem to be a record of you (as in your IP) asking this question previous. JackTheSecond (talk) 11:17, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Hey Jack,

It is mentioned In the little box on the right page "Split from: CDU" the reason you dont see my IP is because I used mobile data and didnt want my real IP being in here. I was too lazy to log in Kogger120 (talk) 13:35, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Hm, I am going to edit it out, as unsourced. For the future: anyone can edit Wikipedia, if something is wrong, misleading, or missing then you are encouraged to fix it. :) JackTheSecond (talk) 14:39, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh. I would have edited it, but the page is protected Kogger120 (talk) 09:23, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

I looked around a bit and found a reputable source for the statement. JackTheSecond (talk) 14:48, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

It seems like it would depend on what constitutes a split. Both Gauland and Robanus did not hold any positions of power, and they did not bring a lot of other important people from the CDU into the AfD. For instance, the newly formed BSW would be a proper split. Various DIE LINKE MPs left the party and joined the BSW. Two CDU people with minor party positions leaving the party doesn't look like a split to me, especially since the source never mentions a party split.

From the German article on a party split:

"Als Parteispaltung oder Abspaltung wird ein Vorgang in einer politischen Partei bezeichnet, bei dem sich ein Parteiflügel oder eine Fraktion um einen bedeutenden Parteivertreter von der Mutterpartei lossagt und eine eigene Partei oder Wählervereinigung gründet."

Okay, party wing is obviously not the case in the AfD, and an important party representative neither, since both Robanus and Gauland were previously unknown. Kogger120 (talk) 09:44, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

You're right about it being a matter of interpretation, but the source characterizes it that way. JackTheSecond (talk) 11:00, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Well, I don't see how it does, to be honest. It says that some CDU politicians made a new party. A party split is not discussed. Furthermore, I believe that it takes more than a Welt article that more or less (more less than more) describes how the party split. The notion of a party split was in no way an object of discussion in the German media. It was not really mentioned at all. And again, I don't think this source is talking about a proper party split at all. Just look at how sources treat a proper party split seen in the newly formed BSW Kogger120 (talk) 12:14, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

You've moved the argument from 'split from' to 'party split' which is different enough in nuance to no longer be the same thing. The article says members of the CDU left the party to create their own one, and they were not only founding members of the new party but influential ones as well.

'Split from' is the correct classification. Even if I understand that both parties rather would if it did not. JackTheSecond (talk) 17:34, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

How is this a correct classification? 2804:14C:DA98:80DD:920:FF85:B64E:C9DA (talk) 18:33, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

If we were to use this definition, "split from CDU" would be incomplete, since there were also a whole bunch of FDP politicians who founded the party, like Jobst Landgrebe and Axel Hahn. Furthermore, it is questionable if the wording "split from CDU" does not lead to confusion I do believe that such a phrase implies a party split. It would be more accurate to use a different wording to not confuse. "Founded by former CDU/FDP members" Kogger120 (talk) 12:03, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

No, it isn´t. Something like "Founded by" (...) "who were previously with" (CDU, FDP a.o.) seems much more reasonable. Alexpl (talk) 14:25, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Update

I currently do not have the permissions to edit this article. However, the statement that AfD is in ID is incorrect as of two weeks ago and should be changed, since this info is important now. Kryshot64 (talk) 15:57, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

New section on electorate of the AfD

I plan to add a section on the electorate of the AfD in the federal elections 2013, 2017 and 2021. --Mangoleaves (talk) 14:45, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Tricky. Stay away from partisan sources. Alexpl (talk) 12:43, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Weasel words

As per WP:WEASEL we reflect the sources, and the vast majority of sources describe the AfD as "far-right" in-fact, nearly all sources describe them as such, and thus we should - end of story. we are not here to advocate for or against the AfD, but to reflect what reliable third party sources say about the subject. Language like this "Described as a party of the far-right" is very weaselly (again, please see WP:WEASEL - do the sources describe the subject as something? Yes they do...then we reflect that, that is how we describe them, without qualifiers. Please read WP:WEASEL if you are an AfD supporter and you don't like how sources describe the party then you shouldn't be editing the article, leave it to unbiased editors who do the right thing and rely 100% on reliable third party sources. As it was that lede was a weaselly word salad. Tambor de Tocino (talk) 03:17, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Ive changed it to still include the right-wing populist part -FMSky (talk) 08:25, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Nice one, the article appeared to contradict all reliable reporting on the subject, as it stood. Tambor de Tocino (talk) 10:04, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Völkisch nationalism

Aficionado 538, I create this discussion parameter to discuss more specifically whether to add Völkisch nationalism to mainstream ideologies. (he and I agree to add it). Hidolo (talk) 22:02, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Hey, how about naming it to "German ultranationalism" with a link to the Völkisch nationalism Wikipedia page as many might not understand what the term means at first glance? Aficionado538 (talk) 07:50, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

I think Völkisch nationalism can stay as it is in my opinion. Zyxrq (talk) 17:34, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Ok np. Aficionado538 (talk) 17:40, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Ideology

Should the ideology section not be expanded? Alexanderkowal (talk) 17:30, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Considering anti-immigration and euroscepticism is stated in the opening paragraph but not included in the ideology section Alexanderkowal (talk) 17:32, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Sorry for the spam, why does this paragraph exist?

Since 2015, AfD's ideology has been characterized by Islamophobia, anti-immigration, German nationalism, national conservatism, and Euroscepticism. Alexanderkowal (talk) 17:36, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

"Islamophobia"?? Phobia?

A so called prophet such as Muhammad who engaged in sexual intercourse with a nine year old child can only be called disgusting. 2003:DA:C72E:1F00:A1AA:48F7:2C27:F160 (talk) 04:20, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

You haven’t read the Quran Alexanderkowal (talk) 06:59, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

You're clearly WP: NOTHERE. KlayCax (talk) 03:55, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Correct. "Right-wing populism" is wrong it's pure Nazism and right-wing extremism, islamophobia, Euroscepticism, Racism, anti-democratism, Russophilia, Antisemitism, and all believes of Hitler. You can clearly see the Paralels between the NSDAP and the AfD. If you don't believe me or need a Source, ask the Verfassungschutz or a decent Antifa-member. Greetings. RegierungDavidlands1852 (talk) 16:03, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

"pure Nazism" is a stretch, and the Verfassungschutz does not back up your claims to this degree. JustAPoliticsNerd (talk) 14:17, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

I agree with you; the ideology section is insufficient to describe the AfD's ideology adequately. In my opinion, labeling it as "right-wing populism" alone is a gross misrepresentation. Given the party's right-wing extremist nature, placing the AfD on par with your typical ECR party is inappropriate, especially given the fact that AfD state chapters and the youth wing of the AfD have been labelled as "right-wing extremist" by the BfV, not to mention, the plan of "remigration" being brought up in a meeting in Potsdam with renowned neo-Nazis such as Sellner, a step even Marine Le Pen considered a step too far. I would suggest including German or "Völkisch" nationalism, "anti-immigration", and anti-Islam in the infobox while retaining "right-wing populism" in the ideology section. There are many of good sources to back up this including those found in the article. Aficionado538 (talk) 20:25, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

@Aficionado538 I think there should probably be another section in the infobox which outlines the party's key positions, as the ideology section used to serve this purpose before it was narrowed. See Workers' Party (Brazil), Republican Party (United States), Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle and Bharatiya Janata Party Alexanderkowal (talk) 21:59, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

@Autospark Alexanderkowal (talk) 22:01, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Look, we've already have recent RFCs which have settled on the current consensus. Please learn how Wikipedia actually works. Start another RFD is you want to overturn consensus, but be aware that 1.) Infoboxes are summaries, not essays, and only should list one or two ideologies. Articles have ledes and Ideology/Ideology and Platform sections for a reason! Repeat, Infoboxes are summaries – if you've ever studied higher education and read abstracts of academic papers, like that, but even simpler and more succinct. 2.) Ideology yields in Infoboxes should list political ideologies, not policy positions – anti-immigration, Euroscepticism etc are policy positions, not political ideologies.--Autospark (talk) 14:20, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Autospark In your revert of someone's edit you said they should discuss it. There's no need to be patronising. My point is that the ideology section used to include key policy positions which was very useful for the layman to glance at. Imo the infobox should include another section called 'Key policy positions' which lists its main positions (less than 5). Abstracts are generally paragraphs that ouline/define/contextualise the objective, which this would do/contribute to. I don't see how the supposed clutter would outweigh the benefit for the reader. Is there another place I could have this discussion generally regarding the articles for political parties, rather than on the talk page for one? Alexanderkowal (talk) 14:33, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Well, the Infobox is meant to be a summary, not an essay or article in itself. What is the point of a summary if it has (in your opinion) to list a whole host of policy positions of a political party like a manifesto? Why even have en.wiki articles at all then, if the summary is meant to be so long? Anyway, if you wish to explain which (ideally no more than two) ideologies that should be used in the Infobox's Ideology section, best bring it to a specific discussion, or an RFD if no new consensus can be reached. (My position is that right-wing populism should be listed. And FWIW, I do agree that this party is extreme, and not just a right-leaning conservative party.)-- Autospark (talk) 14:43, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Autospark I don't think you've read what I've said. In no way am I saying the infobox should be an essay, that is a strawman. I am not saying further ideologies should be added. I am saying there should be another section in the infobox which summarises/lists its key positions, no more than five (if someone wants to include another one, take one out after discussion). For instance, for AfD:

Key positions: (just including those stated in paragraph 3, I'd argue one outlining economic policy be included instead of Islamophobia)

• German nationalism
• National Conservatism
• Anti-immigration
• Islamophobia
• Euroscepticism

I appreciate you're probably sick of talking about this so if you don't want to engage please say that. Alexanderkowal (talk) 15:03, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Alexanderkowal Can you link me to the RFC where the decision was made to narrow down the ideologies to just right-wing populism? Can't seem to find it in the archives, thanks.

And are you interested in starting an RFD about this issue? I am of the opinion that the infobox should list more than just right-wing populism and would support starting one. Right-wing populism, National conservatism, and German nationalism would be my preference. Sisuvia (talk) 11:55, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't think there was an RfC, I think it was just consensual decision. I do think it is worth talking about this more explicitly though, although I'm not familiar with these processes at all. Would you be okay starting an RFD highlighting this? I'm happy to provide input. The issue is generally that this new convention makes it harder for the reader to get an impression of political parties from the info box. I think a new parameter targeting key positions. If you're not familiar with this stuff either, I can give it a go Alexanderkowal (talk) 12:15, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Hey, sorry for the delayed reply. This supposed "new convention" doesn't seem to be applied across the board for all political parties, so I don't think there's a new for new parameters. I think we just need to come to an agreement, which hopefully shouldn't be that hard, on what to include as the party's ideologies in the infobox. I think most contributors would be amenable to listing Right-wing populism, national conservatism, and German nationalism, maybe Euroscepticism. Sisuvia (talk) 12:15, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

No, lots of editors are very adamant about only one entry for ideology. It does seem to be across the board, when I was looking for examples of the old convention I couldn't find many Alexanderkowal (talk) 12:59, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Here we are again. If anyone as much as hints at politics from the "other side", all hell breaks loose. But no, Wikipedia surely is neutral, unbiased and rational... sure.

This whole discussion is to try to put the label "Nazism" right away at the ideology section for censorship purposes. Instead of trying to develop and expand on the political problems of europe that have influenced the party and the voter's beliefs, the discussion goes right away to what "big scary word" should summarize the stereotype of the political party and its voters.

Not only that, the english wikipedia must probably be one of the first sources of information for university professors and school teachers worldwide due to the nature of search engines nowadays. These educators take the information here for granted and don't realize that wikipedia is not a legitimate source of information, it only tries to be one. It is actually a "working in progress" written by biased editors based on other sources that can be legitimate or not.

Even if they are white nationalists, pro-anglo nordicists, or hardcore nazis - this is one more attempt to get the only real opposition party in Germany banned or censored in the virtual world.

The discussion could focus on how europe's tight-knit social democracies are not compatible with immigration and that the german nation, just like the French or any other, never get a say on the resolutions made by the government, hence the reason why there is a significant portion of the population voting for the AfD or sympathizing with its beliefs.

Forget about political context, put "Nazism" right away like a good modern historian. ByronKierkegaard (talk) 01:25, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

@ByronKierkegaard they are not neo-nazis let alone nazis. Alexanderkowal (talk) 07:19, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

You certainly don't understand the irony of it all and how your arguments are completely senseless and useless. Expanding the article using relevant and well sourced information about the political atmosphere of germany would help way more. ByronKierkegaard (talk) 11:55, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

@ByronKierkegaard See Politics of Germany. Nobody sees Wikipedia as gospel, it is not trying to be anything it isn’t. Alexanderkowal (talk) 12:01, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

@ByronKierkegaard I’m going to add a section on the legacy of nazism to the politics of Germany page, it’s a joke it’s omitted. Alexanderkowal (talk) 12:09, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

You are going on a crusade to add a section to one irrelevant article, that absolutely no one important enough gives a damn about it, just to try to prove a point - whatever the hell that is.

Not to mention that you are using 'Nazism' as your favorite trope by copying lines from other articles from this encyclopedia. And you seriously think this is original writing and real research?

It is beyond me how low this 'online encyclopedia' really is concerning some articles. I am leaving here, have fun ByronKierkegaard (talk) 20:56, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

@ByronKierkegaard I am going to add its impact on German politics and how it is relevant today. There is no other article on the legacy of Nazism. Instead of throwing your toys out of the pram you could be constructive.

Trope?? Nazism is a trope now?? No this is not original research because that’s not allowed on Wikipedia. Irrelevant article? Why are you here then. Seems to have hit a nerve.

Either be constructive or you might as well go. Alexanderkowal (talk) 21:05, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

You could really do with some reading comprehension.

I am not the person linking a completely unrelated and useless article and modifying it later on just to prove ideological idiosyncracies. There are far better classical books to learn about politics, or 'The Politics of Germany', written by actual professionals in the areas of economy and history.

I don't get power tripping fantasies for typing on a website of faceless and nameless spawn on a computer monitor.

I am not surprised that this place - and to a certain degree, every single talk page about politics, history and literature inside this website - is a complete freakshow. I doubt that any of these users modifying these articles are 'de creme de la creme' experts in the areas of history, economy or politics. ByronKierkegaard (talk) 03:00, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

@ByronKierkegaard of course not, Wikipedia is done by amateurs. That section so far only includes context for what I’m about to write, which is how German collective guilt impacts their politics now and how it has evolved. If you look at the article, it completely skips over the post war period, I realise what I’ve included is quite heavy and ugly but it is necessary. You could really do with adhering to WP:Assume good faith and lay off the personal attacks, I don't value your opinion of me. Alexanderkowal (talk) 09:31, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

I think I'd support to change the info box to include some variation of these four ideologies

German nationalism

National Conservatism

Right wing populism

Euroscepticism

I don't really see any real reason not to expand the ideology section. Many other Wikipedia articles on political parties have similar numbers of ideologies in their respective info-boxes.

we should at least update the info-box to include

German nationalism

National conservatism

Right-wing populism

. Zyxrq (talk) 01:25, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

The problem here is not even with these ideologies. It is with the intention of placing 'Anti-immigration' and 'Islamophobia' without recognizing what is happening to Germany since 2015: 2015 European migrant crisis. If we don't have the balanced input of german politics from actual germans, what will become of these articles anyway? 177.180.237.251 (talk) 12:55, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

If that's the case shouldn't we just take a look at the German translation of the article and build it off of that? Zyxrq (talk) 00:00, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Probably. The German article has more than double the number of references than the English article. 177.83.207.189 (talk) 13:36, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

I propose to add to the ideology, neofascism. It is not as radical and particular an ideology as neo-nazism, and it better summarizes what the party is. Besides, sources abound.[65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80] Hidolo (talk) 19:16, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Not even the German Wikipedia article or most sources calls the AfD neo-Fascist or a neo-Nazi party, so it would simply not reasonable to add those ideology's. but I do think it would be reasonable to add Völkisch nationalism as a faction of the party, alongside National conservatism as one of the main ideology's would be appropriate. This would fall in line with most of the other non English Wikipedia articles about the AfD. Zyxrq (talk) 16:21, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I agree to add Völkisch nationalism, but not in factions. Hidolo (talk) 18:28, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

I agree to add Völkisch nationalism as one of the main's ideology's. Hidolo (talk) 18:30, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Would agree as well. Aficionado538 (talk) 20:08, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

I updated the Info-box to include:

National conservatism

Right-wing populism

German nationalism and Völkisch nationalism as Natinalism (Völkisch)

Any other changes should be discussed first Zyxrq (talk) 20:21, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

@Hidolo What do you think about separating German nationalism and Völkisch nationalism from "Natinalism (Völkisch)", and just add the two as separate ideologies. Zyxrq (talk) 22:21, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

I agree. Hidolo (talk) 22:25, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Removal of Section concerning Tino Chrupalla's interview with Nikolai Nerling on the AfD Wikipedia page

(from my talkpage [81]) Sorry if I'm not following the correct procedures here, I'm rather new to Wikipedia and I'm unsure if posting here is the correct way to go about discussing the edit in question.

You stated: "'in 2018 party leader Tino C. gave an interview to Nikolai Nerling' - who is then explained to be various kinds bad, isn´t really relevant, since the content of that interview isn´t mentioned by contributor user"

Now, I don't see why the content of the interview is of relevance here? I find this to be moving the goalposts. The section I created concerns antisemitism, and it's about the current AfD co-chief having given an interview to a holocaust denier, which is certainly relevant to the topic, no? It is all the more significant given that the Verfassungsschutz specifically cited the interview the 2019 report concerning the AfD as being evidence of connections to the right-wing populist resistance milieu. That is also how I phrased it in my original write-up:

"As such, the interview was cited in the 2019 Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution report on the AfD as evidence of the party's "Connections to the framework of a so-called new right or right-wing populist 'resistance milieu'"."

To compare, here is the relevant section in my source: "5.2.6 Verbindungen im Rahmen eines sogenannten neurechten bzw. rechtspopulistischen „Widerstandsmilieus“" [...] "Im Juni 2018 veröffentlichte der Rechtsextremist und Betreiber des YouTube-Kanals „Der Volkslehrer“, Nikolai Nerling, ein Video, in dem er dem AfD-Bundestagsabgeordneten Tino Chrupalla einige Fragen stellte. Das Video soll den Anschein der Spontanität erwecken, doch ist Chrupalla in einer frühen Kameraeinstellung bereits wartend im Hintergrund zu sehen."

This is solid evidence for a concrete connection between a person at the literal head of the AfD to a figure so unambiguously extreme that the first sentence in his Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Nerling) is literally "Nikolai Nerling is a German right-wing extremist, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier." Carrot Powder (talk) 09:55, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Yeah. Sure. But no reason for putting the same material right back in.[82]

And for the matter at hand: For a politician to talk to a content creator/journalist guy who is known to be antisemitic, doesn´t seem to be relevant for this article. If Chrupalla made antisemitic statements himself, the "Verfassungsschutz" should and would quote those. What I get out of the source, is that Chrupalla was interviewed by Nerling and that Nerling could use that interview to increase the credibility for the rest of his questionable content. Which may be relevant for a Nerling-article.

BTW - stop using "tp-presseagentur.de" as a source when a report is available on credible websites [83]. Alexpl (talk) 12:14, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

As Chrupalla is the current co-chief of the AfD, the highest possible position, and the interview was explicitly named in the official Verfassungsschutz report on the AfD in 2019, it is indeed relevant to the AfD party, which is why I added it to the article. That there is a substantial connection between Chrupalla and Nerling which demonstrates significant ties of the AfD with the right-wing resistance milieu is not my assertion, it is that of the German Verfassungsschutz, as stated in my entry in the article. Feel free to add more content to Nerling's article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Nerling), but this passage is clearly relevant and deserves to remain on the AfD article. For further reference, here are 4 further articles mentioning the interview:

"Chrupalla wird explizit in einem Gutachten des Bundesamts für Verfassungsschutz genannt, das Grundlage für die Einstufung der AFD als Prüffall war. Auffällig geworden war er durch ein Video bei YouTube, in dem er dem verurteilten Holocaust-Leugner Nikolai Nerling ein Interview gab."

-https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/krefeld/krefeld-viel-polizei-bei-wahl-kundgebung-der-afd_aid-69122005

"Chrupalla wird zum rechten Flügel der Partei gezählt und namentlich in einem Gutachten des Bundesamts für Verfassungsschutz genannt. Auffällig geworden war er durch ein Video auf YouTube, in dem er dem rechtsextremen Volkslehrer Nikolai Nerling ein Interview gab."

-https://www.24hamburg.de/politik/tino-chrupalla-afd-bundessprecher-autounfall-herkunft-facebook-zitate-maler-90020200.html

"Chrupalla war früher häufig bei Pegida und gab dem extrem rechten Compact Magazin und dem Holocaust-leugnenden Youtuber Nikolai Nerling Interviews."

-https://taz.de/AfD-Wahlkampf-in-Sachsen/!5803245/

"Im AfD-Prüfbericht des Bundesamtes für Verfassungsschutz wird auf ein Video verwiesen, dass der Rechtsextremist Nikolai Nerling hochgeladen hat."

-https://www.saechsische.de/plus/vom-malermeister-zum-oppositionsfuehrer-5145839.html Carrot Powder (talk) 12:30, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

No consensus. These new sources add nothing, just a repetition on the fact, that Chrupalla´s name is in the Verfassungsschutz-report, repeated by different contemporary news articles and not disputed. None the less, for some reason you labeled the section with the heading "Antisemitism" [84] - because Chrupalla gave an interview to an antisemite? None of these new sources, as far as I can tell, mentions Chrupalla and "Antisemitism" in the same article. You fail to present a reasonable connection between him and "Antisemitism", let alone the AFD, with these sources - a violation of NPOV - WP:UNDUE. Either you return the article to it´s consensus or you deliver sources which support your statement. "Knows a bad dude" is not enough. Alexpl (talk) 15:59, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

You make a fair point regarding the direct connection between antisemitism and the AfD at hand in the passage. I'll move it to "relationship with rightwing groups" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany#Relationship_with_right-wing_groups) as that is the object of the immediate connection drawn by the Verfassungsschutz report. Carrot Powder (talk) 18:33, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Ideology consensus

@52Timer @Holtz941 @User:Aficionado538 @Hidolo @ValenciaThunderbolt @Alexanderkowal

Do any of you disagree with the Inclusion of these ideology's in the info-box. As I am trying to reach a consensus. from what I can see the ideology's are generally agreed on by Wikipedia users and news sources. If any minor changes are going to be made, it should be made here.

Right-wing populism
National conservatism
German nationalism
Völkisch nationalism Zyxrq (talk) 16:31, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

@Impru20, Number 57, Autospark, Vacant0, Scia Della Cometa, Czello, Braganza, Checco, PLATEL, and HapHaxion: Calling others on their views to expand the ideology parametre in the infobox. I'm personally in favour of Volkisch and right-wing populism. ValenciaThunderbolt (talk) 16:42, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Right-wing populism and National conservatism, in that order (although I would consider listing right-wing populism alone as acceptable). I prefer use of the most broad and transmittable ideologies in Infoboxes; "German nationalism" isn't descriptive enough, and Völkisch nationalism should be left to the article body to be cited, and possibly elaborated upon, as although it is a component of the party's philosophy, it arguably isn't a broad-based political ideology.--Autospark (talk) 17:16, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Has anything actually changed since the 2021 consensus (See the discussion here)? From an academic perspective, AfD is still an ideologically right-wing populist party that is on the far-right (see #1, #2, #3, #4, #5). Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 17:19, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

I wouldn't say much has changed. I do think in my personal opinion the Völkisch faction of the party has gained more influence within the party. If any changes are made, we should at least add National Conservatism to the info-box. If we go beyond that, we could add Völkisch nationalism as a faction of the party.

A example I like to use is the Republican party of the united States. Its generally considered a conservative party. But it has various factions within the party. Maybe We could use this as a stepping stone to create a new article about the ideological factions within the AfD. similar to this Wikipedia article, "Factions in the Republican Party (United States)." Yes the AfD is Far-right, but it also has a moderate wing and a extremist wing, I.e Alternative Mitte and Der Flügel. Zyxrq (talk) 17:58, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Being honest, I oppose listing any "factions" in the Infobox of this or any other political party article. Describing and detailing factions should be left for the bodies of the articles themselves. We should only use the broadest possible terms in the Infobox, its purpose being a summary.-- Autospark (talk) 13:55, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

I support having right-wing populism and national conservatism. The latter could be well replaced by plain nationalism (not "German" or "Völkisch"). --Checco (talk) 21:04, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

And I also generally oppose have factional ideologies in the infobox, that should contain two or three ideologies, better just one. --Checco (talk) 19:58, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

@Checco Could we add right-wing populism and national conservatism under the majority section? Then, under a 'Factions' section, we could list other ideologies such as Völkisch Nationalism. This solution does not undermine their core ideologies but highlights their far-right tendencies. Zane Wilt (talk) 20:41, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

I won't speak for Checco here, but factions should not be listed in the Infobox. We have an Ideology section in this very article, and part of the lede, for that very purpose. Any factions should be described based on what knowledge is gained through WP:RS, not WP:SYNTH and 'gut instinct', and not in the Infobox, which is meant to only be a brief summary. Personally speaking, the AfD party is very widely described as right-wing populist by the vast majority of sources, therefore I support its continued inclusion in the Infobox. That as the sole ideology listed would suffice in my view.-- Autospark (talk) 20:59, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

I completely agree with User:Autospark and I have little more to add to what he and I had already said on the matter. --Checco (talk) 20:20, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

@Checco: I'd rather have "German nationalism" added, as there is a page on its history. There could be scope to adding "national conservatism", but German nationalism has the latter ingrained into it, making it void in having it in the infobox. ValenciaThunderbolt (talk) 20:24, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

My preference goes for "national conservatism" and "right-wing populism", but I would accept "nationalism", while opposing "German nationalism". --Checco (talk) 20:26, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

@Checco: Why do you object to "German nationalism"? I saw your objection to "Volkisch nationalism", but not the other. ValenciaThunderbolt (talk) 20:29, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

I oppose national varieties of ideologies when mother articles are better. Of course, each country has its own nationalism, liberalism, conservatism, social democracy and so on, but this parcelling out is not useful, in my view. --Checco (talk) 20:32, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Ah, okay then. ValenciaThunderbolt (talk) 20:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Neutral about it honestly, i was just finding sources. 52Timer (talk) 00:26, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

I agree. But, if there are no consensus for Völkisch nationalism, it would be ok to add ultraconservatism and ultranationalism. Hidolo (talk) 23:13, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

I agree with all of these, except for "German Nationalism" and "Volkisch nationalism," the latter of which is a little controversial, and both of which can be described more simply as "Nationalism." JustAPoliticsNerd (talk) 13:55, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

In other words we have a general agreement to add National Conservatism to the info-box?Zyxrq (talk) 03:03, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Are there any recent sources that describe the party as such? Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 08:33, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

References

Semi-protected edit request on 2 August 2024

The election poster is mis-translated. It doesn't say "German language without gender" it says "German language without gendering". Please change it to that. thanks 2600:8800:2C09:3200:A4F0:D8EE:A0DE:64C5 (talk) 03:38, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

 Partly done: According to other unobscured photos of this poster, it definitely says “Ohne Gendern”, which does not mean “without gender” and the previous wording was thus misleading. I’m not sure if gendering is also sufficiently unambiguous terminology, and have thus changed it to “without gender neutrality”, but I’m open to different wordings or removing the description for the caption if there’s not a consensus on its wording

CloakedFerret (talk) 17:01, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

I think the translation at least needs context. The paragraph on LGBTQ and feminism does not mention the gendering debate at all, so someone not familiar with the German language and the debate would not easily understand how the poster is even relevant to these issues. Maybe it would make sense to link to Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender#Gender gap, gender star and gender colon to clarify the translation and its context. 2003:CD:EF01:8800:1879:CEF5:6CEE:ED82 (talk) 22:12, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, that would help with the clarity, I've linked to the article. CloakedFerret (talk) 22:27, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Ideology

Considering statements by the prominent AfD politicians as well as their connections, I think we should for example: - remove the radical right foot note considering their extremist statements, - regarding statements made for example by Weidel, in the ideology sections there should be added ideologies such as revisions, anti-Polish sentiment, russophilia and possibly neo-nazism Nagito Komaeda the Second (talk) 18:21, 6 September 2024 (UTC)